A’Lelia Bundles is the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book and bestseller, which has been optioned for a 10-part television series starring Octavia Spencer. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, O Magazine, Parade and Essence. While at MacDowell she worked on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a biography of her great-grandmother, whose parties and arts patronage helped define the era. She is developing a collection of poems and collages inspired by photographs and documents of eight generations of her family.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
A'Lelia Bundles
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
aleliabundles.com
Studios
Calderwood
A'Lelia Bundles worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…