Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, novelist, and memoirist, Gordon Parks has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. <P> In <I>A Hungry Heart,</i> Parks reflects on the people and events that shaped him: from growing up poor on the Kansas prairie to crisscrossing the country on the North Coast Limited; documenting poverty and injustice in Chicago to doing fashion spreads for <I>Vogue;</i> photographing black revolutionaries to writing, composing the soundtrack for, and directing the Hollywood movie version of his novel <I>The Learning Tree.</i> More than a self-portrait of the artist, <I>A Hungry Heart</i> is a striking account of an American era.