| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780393328264 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 11/28/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 31308094 | | Item#: R4TXDK | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.75H x 5.5L x 1.25T | | Pages: 496 |
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| | | Drawing on papers, letters, journals, and extensive interviews with Walker, her family, friends, and colleagues, and with leading American cultural figures including Gloria Steinem, Quincy Jones, and Oprah Winfrey, White assesses one of the most influential writers of modern time.
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This account of the first 60 years of Alice Walker's life begins with her dirt-poor childhood in Georgia, where her father was a sharecropper. Faced with unpromising odds--and blinded in one eye when her brother accidentally shot her with a BB gun when she was eight--Walker nonetheless pulled herself out of her background by means of a college scholarship. Her writing talent was discovered early on, and she not only published poetry and fiction but became deeply involved in feminist issues, including a stint as an editor at Ms. magazine in its early days. Walker's career culminated with her Pulitzer Prize for THE COLOR PURPLE. The author interviewed Walker herself and many of her associates in researching this very thorough biography of a major African-American figure.
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"Authorized, immensely supportive and informative....A bodacious hagiography that intelligently fills in details...." 07/01/2004Gay & Lesbian Review
"Journalist Evelyn C. White has produced the first major biography of the writer, and has successfully assembled the pieces of Walker's life and related them to her literary output....This compelling biography brings us the sources and inspirations for Walker's formidable work while detailing the ups and downs of a vulnerable human being." - Janet Mason November-December 2004 New York Times Book Review
"The rich, complex story White tells...is never less than fascinating." - Stacey D'Erasmo 10/24/2004 |
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