{"product_id":"gathering-blossoms-under-fire-the-journals-of-alice-walker-1965-2000-paperback","title":"Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Walker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eValerie Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize--winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e. She intimately explores her thoughts and feeling 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e; winning the Pulizter 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 \"revelation, a road map, and a gift to us all\" (Tayari Jones, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e) offers rare insight into a literary legend.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of My Familiar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNow Is the Time to Open Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eValerie Boyd was the author of the critically acclaimed biography\u003ci\u003e Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Southern Book Award and the American Library Association's Notable Book Award. She was the founder and director of the MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She was editor-at-large at the University of Georgia Press and senior consulting editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Bitter Southerner\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48665202229496,"sku":"9781476773162","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/eKCvYeSRZI9781476773162.webp?v=1780001428","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/gathering-blossoms-under-fire-the-journals-of-alice-walker-1965-2000-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}