{"product_id":"wounds-of-passion-a-writing-life-paperback","title":"Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life - 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\u003eBell Hooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBell Hooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.\" --Gloria Steinem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell hooks traces her writer's journey in \u003ci\u003eWounds of Passion\u003c\/i\u003e. She shares the difficulties and triumphs, the pleasures and the dangers, of a life devoted to writing. hooks lets readers see the ways one woman writer can find her own voice while forging relationships of love in keeping with her feminist thinking. With unflinching courage and hard-won wisdom, hooks reveals the intimate details and provocative ideas of the life path she carved out of words, lighting the way for all writers who would tread in her wake. \u003cbr\u003eThis memoir is an illuminating vision of a writer's life from one of America's treasured authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.\" --Maya Angelou\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ebell hooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952-2021) was a pioneering feminist whose writings revealed how the specific life experiences of Black women were marginalized by the idea that feminism represented all women equally. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies, she taught at the University of Southern California, Yale, Oberlin College, City College of New York, and Kentucky's Berea College, which established the bell hooks Institute for her work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author of more than thirty books of literary criticism, children's fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including \u003ci\u003eKilling Rage: Ending Racism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBone Black: Memories of Girlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWounds of Passion: A Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRemembered Rapture: The Writer at Work\u003c\/i\u003e, hooks was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, won an American Book Award, and was named one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Women of the Year in 2020.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.52 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47986906104056,"sku":"9780805057225","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/OWJpbk9QTGZIVFdSQVB0RW1OU1ZEZz09.webp?v=1770972892","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/wounds-of-passion-a-writing-life-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}