Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker - Hardcover

This is a visual memoir of Alice Walker's remarkable life as a novelist, essayist, poet and activist in candid photographs, manuscript drafts - including handwritten drafts of The Color Purple - letters and other selections from the personal archive she started keeping when she was 14. These records are framed by an intimate first-person narrative that will make readers feel as though they are having a cup of tea with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author as she shares - in her own unguarded, opinionated and singular voice - the story behind each letter, document and snapshot. Escorting readers on a fascinating journey through five decades of American social history, this literary scrapbook captures important public and private moments from an illustrious and inimitable life.

Alice Walker won the PULITZER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for THE COLOR PURPLE. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry.