A'Lelia Bundles Joy Goddess

About the author:

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, the first major biography of her great-grandmother, and of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother. Bundles is a former ABC News executive, an Emmy-winning NBC News producer, founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives, and a member of several nonprofit boards including Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.

About the book:

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance is a vibrant, nuanced, deeply researched biography of a woman whose glamorous soirees helped define uptown New York’s cultural and social scene during the 1920s. Best known as the only child of hair care entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, she was an internationally famous heiress and arts patron in her own right, who entertained the era’s most famous artists, writers, musicians and actors at her Dark Tower salon.

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