Gathering blossoms under fire : the journals of Alice Walker
Walker, Alice, 1944-2022
Book
This is a visual memoir of Alice Walker's remarkable life as a novelist, essayist, poet, and activist in candid photographs, manuscript drafts - including handwritten drafts of 'The Color Purple' - letters and other selections from the personal archive she started keeping when she was 14. These records are framed by an intimate first-person narrative that will make readers feel as though they are having a cup of tea with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author as she shares - in her own unguarded, opinionated and singular voice - the story behind each letter, document, and snapshot. Escorting readers on a fascinating journey through five decades of American social history, this literary scrapbook captures important public and private moments from an illustrious and inimitable life.
Main title:
Gathering blossoms under fire : the journals of Alice Walker / Alice Walker ; edited by Valerie Boyd.
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022.
Collation:
560 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780297608387 (hbk)029760838X (hbk)
Dewey class:
B WALB WAL
LC class:
PS3573.A425
Language:
English
Subject:
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- DiariesWomen novelists, American -- 20th century -- BiographyNovelists, American -- 20th century -- BiographyAfrican American authors -- 20th century -- BiographyCivil rights workers -- United States -- BiographyBiographyBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: literaryAutobiography: literaryMemoirs
BRN:
387431