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.