Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Alice Walker's personal journals offer an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.

Edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, this compilation gathers together for the first time Walker’s fifty years of journals, providing a singular voice that explores an astonishing array of events, including her experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, her early miscarriage, writing her first novel, and more.

This revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend and is a powerful blend of Walker’s personal life with political events.