A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend. 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, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South an early miscarriage 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 and burying her mother. The documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth was released in 2013. She intimately explores 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. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 19652000 Hardcover Deckle Edge, Apby Alice Walker (Author), Valerie Boyd (Editor) 246 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 16.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire (2022) is a collection of her journals. She intimately explores 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. '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. These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all TAYARI JONES, author of An American MarriageFrom the acclaimed author Alice Walker.

She intimately explores 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. 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. ApEssays Memoir Non-Fiction The edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together for the first time.

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