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A Hungry Heart: A Memoir (Paperback)
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Description
Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, novelist, and memoirist, Gordon Parks has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.
In A Hungry Heart, Parks reflects on the people and events that shaped him: from growing up poor on the Kansas prairie to crisscrossing the country on the North Coast Limited; documenting poverty and injustice in Chicago to doing fashion spreads for Vogue; photographing black revolutionaries to writing, composing the soundtrack for, and directing the Hollywood movie version of his novel The Learning Tree. More than a self-portrait of the artist, A Hungry Heart is a striking account of an American era.
About the Author
Gordon Parks's retrospective book of art photography, Half Past Autumn, published in 1997, coincided with an exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., which traveled in the United States from that year until 2003, and an HBO documentary that aired on November 30, 2000. He has authored numerous books of art, fiction, memoir (including A Star for Noon), photographs, and a CD of his music (2000). He published The Learning Tree, a novel, in 1963, and three previous autobiographies, A Choice of Weapons, To Smile in Autumn, and Voices in the Mirror. He died in March 2006 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.
Praise for A Hungry Heart: A Memoir…
"A Hungry Heart is a compelling reflection on some gentle and fierce times both in the life of Gordon Parks and in our own recent history. People now and in the future will thank him for leaving this account, which may help us all unravel and put in perspective many aspects of coming present tenses."
-- Ruby Dee
"A Hungry Heart is a memoir of timeless importance. Gordon Parks is one of my real heroes, a role model of strength and conviction. These qualities unfold through the chapters of his life stories. . . . Essential reading."
-- Archie Givens, Jr., The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
"Thanks to Gordon Parks, we are all blessed with a greater sense of the world and of ourselves through the art, the music, and the intuitive skills of his 'hungry heart.' What a blessing he is to us all! What a treasure to have the incredible voice and vision of Gordon Parks still 'hungry' enough to continue to teach us all. What an inspiration this renaissance man is to the world! Every page of A Hungry Heart is a feast and only makes you want to learn more from this living legend.... What a blessing! Hallelujah, Gordon Parks!"
-- Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
