![]() ![]() “My God, what do black women writers want?” she was often asked. ![]() She became a sought-after speaker and teacher-“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” the title essay of her collection of Womanist Prose, was first delivered as a talk. In 1968, her first poetry collection appeared, and two years later, a novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland. At 21, a student at Sarah Lawrence, Walker wondered, “What am I really? And what do I want to do with me? Somehow,” she mused, “I know I shall never feel settled with myself and life until I have a profession I can love.” That profession became poet, novelist, and essayist. Introduced and annotated by critic and biographer Boyd, the volume chronicles Walker’s civil rights activism, marriage to a White Jewish lawyer, motherhood, divorce, affairs with men and women, blossoming sexuality, religion, money troubles, real estate ventures, and, not least, her writing career. 1944) has selected entries from 1965 to 2000, documenting her rise as one of the most celebrated writers of her time, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer and National Book Award for The Color Purple, among many other awards. ![]() A self-portrait culled from the Pulitzer Prize winner’s journals.įrom her 65 journals and notebooks deposited at Emory University, unavailable to researchers until 2040, Walker (b. ![]()
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