Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

By: Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 April 2022

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560 Pages

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From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Alice Walker, and edited by the notable Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over four decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual.

For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately mines her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, partly to defy laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; the birth of her daughter; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women's Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; burying her mother; and her own daughter's betrayal. A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.

Industry Reviews

"Alice Walker contains multitudes. She is a truth-telling, word-working, change-conjuring, culture-shifting, revolutionary artist and citizen of the world. These journals are a revelation, a road map, and a gift to us all." --Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage
"Those who know Alice Walker's body of work know that she inspired a generation of Black women writers who continue to impact America's literary landscape. And didn't so many of us read Walker to understand how to survive this place, to fight to become whole, to pull self-love to our fleshy, dark selves? And now, to read Walker's journals--decades of unfiltered musings showing us a complex person with sorrows, triumphs, flaws, and beauties--feels like witnessing a medicine moment, a griotte's testimony." --Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

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