A powerful blend of Walker’s personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend. 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. ApGathering Blossoms Under Fire - The Journals of Alice Walker Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker spoke about her development as a writer and activist. 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. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Alice Walker 32.50 From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning author.

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. Simon & Schuster will publish Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000 on April 12. there were many things I didn't know about Alice and this book really made me learn and understand more about her. 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. It was also named a notable book by the American Library Association. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire is the story of the journals of Alice Walker we get to know and learn more about her life during that period.

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