![]() ![]() 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. It is 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. Alice Walker will release, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000,in April. ![]()
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