She talks about why her latest book is a collection of her journals titled 'Gathering Blossoms Under Fire.' The journals span from 1965 to 2000. Yet her personal life is a powerful story in itself. The personal and the political are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges from Walker's journals. Alice Walker is known for her gift of storytelling. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she writes about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., or 'the King' as she called him her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, partly to defy laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South an early miscarriage the birth of her daughter 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, in sometimes equal measure, for her work and her activism burying her mother and her estrangement from her own daughter. For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize.
She also intimately explores - in real time - 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 Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate, intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political development. From the acclaimed author Alice Walker - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize - comes an unprecedented compilation of four decades' worth of journals that draw an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, intellectual and human rights activist.
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