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Writing this three years before receiving the National Book Award and making history by becoming the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Color Purple, Walker had envisioned freedom-personal, professional, and political-that was unimaginable to generations of Black writers, and to Black women generally, before her. To think the unthinkable.” Boldly concluding, “To dare to engage the world in a conversation it has not had before.”Īs a Black woman writer who has read almost every novel, poem, essay, or short story Walker has ever published, I found this entry in the new book Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000, remarkable for its ambition and radical honesty. Walker’s answer was emphatic, as she wrote in her dark blue spiral notebook: “We want freedom. A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.One time in 1980, a 36-year-old Alice Walker posed this question in her journal: “My God, what do black women writers want?” 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. 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.

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.

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.

Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.įrom 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.