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Author Walker, Alice, 1944- author.

Title Gathering blossoms under fire : the journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000 / edited by Valerie Boyd.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  813.54 WAL    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO WALKER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY WALKER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  813.54 WALKER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  813.54 WAL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  813.54 WALKER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  813.54 WALKER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  813.54 WALKER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  813.54 WAL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  813.54 WALKER    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xix, 537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Marriage, movement, and Mississippi / the 1960s -- The nature of this flower is to bloom / the 1970s -- Be nobody's darling / the 1980s -- You can't keep a good woman down / the 1990s.
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Diaries.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.
African American women authors -- Diaries.
Social reformers -- United States -- Diaries.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
Walker, Alice, 1944- (OCoLC)fst00043003
African American women authors. (OCoLC)fst00799477
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01122841
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form diaries. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300027112
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
Diaries.
Added Author Boyd, Valerie, editor.
Added Title Journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000
Other Form: Online version: Walker, Alice, 1944- Gathering blossoms under fire First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022 9781476773179 (DLC) 2021047980
ISBN 9781476773155 (hardcover)
1476773157 (hardcover)
9781476773179 electronic book
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