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by Bell Hooks

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With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers.

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From the publisher

"bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence." --Gloria Steinem

With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell hooks traces her writer's journey in Wounds of Passion. She shares the difficulties and triumphs, the pleasures and the dangers, of a life devoted to writing. hooks lets readers see the ways one woman writer can find her own voice while forging relationships of love in keeping with her feminist thinking. With unflinching courage and hard-won wisdom, hooks reveals the intimate details and provocative ideas of the life path she carved out of words, lighting the way for all writers who would tread in her wake.

This memoir is an illuminating vision of a writer's life from one of America's treasured authors.

"I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." --Maya Angelou

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We had not been sleeping together for weeks.

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  • Title Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
  • Author Bell Hooks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York
  • Publication date 1999-01-15
  • Features Concordance
  • ISBN 9780805057225 / 0805057226
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.57 x 0.72 in (21.64 x 14.15 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminists - United States, Afro-Americans
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952-2021) was a pioneering feminist whose writings revealed how the specific life experiences of Black women were marginalized by the idea that feminism represented all women equally. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies, she taught at the University of Southern California, Yale, Oberlin College, City College of New York, and Kentucky's Berea College, which established the bell hooks Institute for her work.

The author of more than thirty books of literary criticism, children's fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, and Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, hooks was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, won an American Book Award, and was named one of Time's 100 Women of the Year in 2020.

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