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Walker, Alice, 1944-
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Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Diaries.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.
Women authors, Black -- United States -- Diaries.
Social reformers -- United States -- Diaries.
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Walker, Alice, 1944-
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Diaries.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.
Women authors, Black -- United States -- Diaries.
Social reformers -- United States -- Diaries.
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Gathering blossoms under fire : the
journals
of
Alice
Walker
1965-2000
/ edited by Valerie Boyd.
by
Walker
,
Alice
, 1944-
Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Call #:
818.5403 W177g
Subjects
Walker
,
Alice
, 1944- -- Diaries.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.
Women authors, Black -- United States -- Diaries.
Social reformers -- United States -- Diaries.
ISBN:
9781476773155 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Journals
of
Alice
Walker
1965-2000
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
xix, 537 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"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 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. A powerful blend of
Walker
's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend"--From publisher.
Genre:
Diaries.
Other authors:
Boyd, Valerie.
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