Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
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Name (Latin)
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
Other forms of name
Alexander, Margaret Walker, 1915-1998
Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, 1915-1998
Walker, Margaret, 1915-
Date of birth
1915-07-07
Date of death
1998-11-30
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Education, Higher
Fiction
Poetry
Occupation
College teachers
Novelists
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Biographical or Historical Data
Ph.D.
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed September 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Walker, Margaret; Margaret Abigail Walker; poet, fiction writer; born 07 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States; graduated from Gilbert Academy (1930) and matriculated at New Orleans College; transferred from New Orleans College to Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1932); received AB degree (1935); worked for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago under the Works Progress Administration (WPA); member of the South Side Writers Group; master in creative writing, University of Iowa (1940); professor, Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina (1945); PhD, University of Iowa (1965); professor of English at Jackson State College until her retirement (1979); created and directed the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People and originated the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival; died 30 November 1998 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- For my people, 1942.
- Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014(Ph.D.)
- Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander, Jan. 22, 1977, 1979:leaf ii-iii (b. 7/7/15; married Firnist James Alexander, 1943)
- Wikipedia, viewed on Sept. 9, 2008:(Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 6, 1915-November 30, 1998) was an African-American poet and author born in Birmingham, Alabama; she wrote as Margaret Walker; Ph.D. from Univ. of Iowa; author of the novel, Jubilee (1966))
- Her For my people, 1942.
- Her Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander, Jan. 22, 1977, 1979:leaf ii-iii (b. 7/7/15; married Firnist James Alexander, 1943)
- Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1998:obit. (Margaret Walker Alexander, 83, died Nov. 30, 1998, in Chicago; African American short story writer, poet, and novelist)