Join in an in-person event with Alice Walker, author of “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire.”
AUTHOR TALK DETAILS
April 12 @ 7:00 pm
Georgia Writers Museum
109 S. Jefferson St.
Eatonton, Georgia 31024
Registration Link: https://georgiawritersmuseum.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/georgiawritersmuseum/eventRegistration.jsp?event=531&
Join in a virtual event with Alice Walker, author of “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire.”
VIRTUAL EVENT DETAILS
April 13 @ 7:30 pm
Charis Books
Registration Link: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/gathering-blossoms-under-fire-journals-alice-walker-19652000
About the Author:
Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, 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.
About the Book:
From 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.
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. 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.
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.; 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. A powerful blend of Walker’s personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.
