A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend. The documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth was released in 2013. 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. Other articles where Gathering Blossoms Under Fire is discussed: Alice Walker: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire (2022) is a collection of her journals. 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. An excerpt from Alice Walker’s journals on the making of ‘The Color Purple.’ The following excerpt was edited for length and reprinted verbatim from Gathering Blossoms Under Fire by Alice. 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. 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.įor 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.

Gathering blossoms under fire