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A woman of enormous talent and remarkable drive, Zora Neale Hurston
published seven books, many short stories, and several articles and
plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Today,
nearly every black woman writer of significance -- including Maya
Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker -- acknowledges Hurston as
a literary foremother, and her 1937 masterpiece "Their Eyes Were
Watching God" has become a crucial part of the modern literary
canon.
"Wrapped in Rainbows, " the first biography of Zora Neale Hurston
in more than twenty-five years, illuminates the adventures,
complexities, and sorrows of an extraordinary life. Acclaimed
journalist Valerie Boyd delves into Hurston's history -- her youth
in the country's first incorporated all-black town, her friendships
with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, her sexuality and
short-lived marriages, and her mysterious relationship with vodou.
With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II
as historical backdrops, "Wrapped in Rainbows" not only positions
Hurston's work in her time but also offers riveting implications
for our own.
'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all'
TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 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.
In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate,
intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political
development. 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 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. The personal and the political
are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges
from Walker's journals.
'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all'
TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 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.
In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate,
intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political
development. 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 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. The personal and the political
are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges
from Walker's journals.
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