An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker has been a participant in most of the major movements of planetary change, among them the Human and Civil Rights Movement in the South, the Hands Off ...

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000 Edited by Valerie Boyd. Simon & Schuster, $37.50 (560p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7315-5 ...