![]() ![]() In an unvarnished and singular voice, she writes about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., or 'the King' as she called him her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, partly to defy laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South an early miscarriage the birth of her daughter writing her first novel the trials and triumphs of the women's movement and many more. She also intimately explores - in real time - 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. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 19652000 Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781476773155 Pages: 560 Righton. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of. An artist and earthling through the years 'Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker' offer readers an intimate glimpse. ![]() ![]() In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate, intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political development. ![]() From the acclaimed author Alice Walker - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize - comes an unprecedented compilation of four decades' worth of journals that draw an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, intellectual and human rights activist. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker - Kindle edition by Walker, Alice, Boyd, Valerie. ![]()
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