Margaret Walker
MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) was one of America's most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. She first gained national recognition with the 1942 poetry collection For My People , a winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. She was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for her novel Jubilee , which became a national bestseller. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of...See more
MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) was one of America's most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. She first gained national recognition with the 1942 poetry collection For My People , a winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. She was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for her novel Jubilee , which became a national bestseller. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage. See less
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Margaret Walker book reviews
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This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems
Margaret Walker's Century
I was looking for an author new to me to read for Black History Month and found Margaret Walker's "For My People" at the local library. In 1941, Walker (1915 - 1998) became the first African American ... Read More
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For My People
Margaret Walker's For My People
The Yale Series of Younger Poets celebrated its centenary in 2019 and is the longest-running annual literary award in the United States. The prize is open to Americans who have not previously ... Read More
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Jubilee
An honest and well written biography of the experiences of the author's grandmother's days as a slave and as a free woman Read More