num_pages: 560
description: From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd comes an unprecedented compilation of Walkers fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist human rights and womens 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 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.In an unvarnished and singular voice she explores an astonishing array of 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 Womens 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. A powerful blend of Walkers personal life with political events this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.
language: English
title: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
publisher: Simon & Schuster