CBH Talk: Alice Walker and Imani Perry in Conversation
Join National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker for this conversation about the publication of her edited journals, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965 - 2000. An intimate glimpse into Walker’s growth as an artist, activist, and intellectual, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire offers rare insights into a literary legend’s thoughts, feelings and experiences on topics that range from marriage to protest to blossoming sexuality to writing The Color Purple, and more. The conversation is led by Imani Perry, professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, scholar of literary and cultural studies, and author of numerous works of creative nonfiction, including, most recently, South to America.
Participants
Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.
Photo by Ana Elena Pena
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her latest book is South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. She is also the author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation; Breathe: A Letter to My Sons; Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation; and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem.
Join National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker for this conversation about the publication of her edited journals, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965 - 2000. An intimate glimpse into Walker’s growth as an artist, activist, and intellectual, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire offers rare insights into a literary legend’s thoughts, feelings and experiences on topics that range from marriage to protest to blossoming sexuality to writing The Color Purple, and more. The conversation is led by Imani Perry, professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, scholar of literary and cultural studies, and author of numerous works of creative nonfiction, including, most recently, South to America.
Participants
Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.
Photo by Ana Elena Pena
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her latest book is South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. She is also the author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation; Breathe: A Letter to My Sons; Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation; and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem.