A Hungry Heart A Memoir [Paperback]

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.

InA 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 forVogue;photographing black revolutionaries to writing, composing the soundtrack for, and directing the Hollywood movie version of his novelThe Learning Tree.More than a self-portrait of the artist,A Hungry Heartis a striking account of an American era. No one has done more to frame the true landscape of black America than Gordon Parks.
--American Legacymagazine Every page ofA Hungry Heartis a feast and only makes you want to learn more from this...renaissance man.
-- Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe [N]ow and in the future [we] will thank [Parks] for leaving this account, which may help us all unravel and put in perspective many aspects of coming present tenses.
-- Ruby Dee 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 A testimony to Parks's wit, sensitivities and vast armory of talents.
--The New York Times Book Review