The beloved writer and editor, who edited 35 years of Alice Walker’s journals, died earlier this year and left behind a remarkable new book about Black resilience
. Nearing the completion of a formidable project – editing 35 years of Alice Walker’s journals – and facing her inexorable death by pancreatic cancer, Boyd made a breathtaking decision to begin, and complete, another wide-ranging literary work. Bigger Than Bravery is the result of Boyd’s unshakable belief in joy as an act of resistance for Black people, in the power of gathering at the crossroads.
“Valerie helped us to see the value in ourselves,” Wilson told me of the impact that Boyd still has on a vast community of writers. “She would not let us be shaken, would not let us give up on ourselves, would not let us play ourselves small. She made us believe that we could do the big thing. She was always telling me, until the end of her life on this side of forever, not to lose sight of my divine calling.
Bigger Than Bravery chronicles the shards of fear, loneliness, grief and rage that characterized the beginning and height of the pandemic that sliced through the Black community mercilessly, highlighting all of the nation’s malignant disparities.
Boyd considered this book a work of literature and of history. She decided on an unconventional route to publication, turning to her friend and former student KaToya Ellis Fleming, who had just started a new job as an editor atand assistant professor of publishing arts at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. It was Fleming’s first acquisition. She and her students put final, loving touches on it after Boyd died.
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