The Learning Tree Author:Gordon Parks "A fine novel." — THE BOSTON HERALD — Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and lea... more »ve their mark a world that is better for their having been in it.« less