I'm interested in moving into the space I have created for myself. I lived so much time in solitude, writing 23 books, spending a lot of time in the country, just me and my dog. Solitude was the priority. Now it's the opposite. I spend a lot of time with friends.
Life has a completely different flavour.
May. A film crew has arrived on this wet un-Californian morning to interview her about the civil rights heroine, Rosa Parks. So the woman who once received cards through her letterbox in Mississippi telling her that 'the eyes of the Klan are upon you' is now sought for her thoughts and insights by the documentary-makers of California. It has been a long walk. The Facts 1944 Born in Eatonton, Georgia, the youngest of eight children. Parents were sharecroppers, descended from slaves.