A Hungry Heart: A Memoir

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.