Margaret Walker AKA Margaret Abigail Walker Born: 7-Jul-1915 Birthplace: Birmingham, AL Died: 30-Nov-1998 Location of death: Chicago, IL Cause of death: Cancer - Breast Remains: Buried, Garden Memorial Park, Jackson, MS
Gender: Female Religion: Methodist Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Jubilee Father: Sigismund C. Walker (Methodist minister) Mother: Marion Dozier Walker Husband: Firnist James Alexander (m. 1943, four children) Daughter: Marion Elizabeth Alexander Coleman
High School: Gilbert Academy, New Orleans, LA University: Dillard University (two years) University: BA English, Northwestern University (1935) University: MA, University of Iowa (1940) Professor: Jackson State College University: PhD, University of Iowa (1965)
Fulbright 1971 NEA Fellowship 1972
Author of books:
For My People (1942, poetry) Jubilee (1966, novel) How I Wrote Jubilee (1972) Prophets for a New Day (1970, poetry) October Journey (1973, poetry) Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius (1988, biography) This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (1989, poetry) On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 (1997, essays)
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