Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art

Product Description Giving Birth, Finding Form By Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen Three eminent writers and strong women join in this once-in-a-lifetime dialogue about giving birth to life, to love, and to art. Share in this meeting as Alice Walker, Isabel Allendé, and Jean Shinoda Bolen unravel their lives from their books – and illustrate how creativity can kindle the feminine spirit. Using words and stories like brushstrokes, they draw us into the sagas of their lives. We learn how pain, anger, and sorrow give birth to the treasure that is their writing. Giving Birth, Finding Form offers precious words of inspiration for all people struggling to express their creativity – spiced with many stories from the lives of these award-winning writers. From Library Journal In an outstanding segment of the "Creative Conversations" series, three world-renowned women authors discuss their lives, books, and the diverse forces that have spawned their many literary productions. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Color Purple ; Isabel Allende, South American journalist and fiction writer; and Jean Shinoda Bolen, psychiatrist and professor, mesh their remarks beautifully in a moving, fluid, and colorful dialog (these women are funny ). They tell how pain, abandonment, grief, violence, anger, and also joy and love have been catalytic to their creative writings. They also describe other influential factors such as the collective female unconscious, clairvoyance, witnessing, time alone, and being born "different." Their priceless words promote the bonding of everywoman and provide for a deeper understanding of the creative process. For general audiences and women's studies, creative studies, and literature collections. - Barbara J. Vaughan, State Univ. Coll. at Buffalo Lib., N.Y. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Book Description Revealing how pain, anger, and sorrow gave birth to their writing, Walker, Allende, and Bolen illustrate how creativity can kindle the feminine spirit. Highly recommended for listeners who are struggling to express their creativity. Recorded live. About the Author Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California.