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Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 7, 1915-November 30, 1998) was an American poet and creator innate around Birmingham, Alabama. She wrote when Margaret Alexander. Her father Sigismund C. Walker was the Methodist minister and her mother was Marion Dozier Walker. It helped develop her began around literature by teaching a great deal of philosophy and poetry to her as a child. Around 1935, Walker received her Bachelors of Arts Degree from Northwestern University and in 1936 she began work sustaining a Federal Writers' Project under the Works Progress Administration. Inside 1942 she received her master's degree in originative writing from either a University of Iowa. Within 1965 she returned to that school to earn her Ph.D. She besides for the period served as a prof at what is in todays world Jackson State University.
Her literature typically contained African American themes. Among her other popular works were her verse form For My People, which won the Yale Award for Young Poets and her 1966 novel Jubilee, which received critical acclaim. Within 1988 she sued Alex Haley, claiming his novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family had violated in Jubilee Margaret Walker died of cancer in Chicago in 1998.
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Margaret Walker Page Poetry, criticism, group discussion of this African American empress of deceptively simple, subversively traditional poetry. |
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