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.
A'Lelia Bundles
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Based in Washington, D.C.
Residencies: 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. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…