Person
ISNI: 
0000 0001 2099 9163
https://isni.org/isni/0000000120999163
Name: 
Alexander, Margaret A.
Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker
Alexander, Margaret Walker
Margaret Abigail Walker
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (American poet and writer)
Margaret Walker (Amerikaans romanschrijfster (1915-1998))
Margaret Walker (écrivaine américaine)
Margaret Walker (US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin)
Walker Alexander, Margaret
Walker, Margaret,
Walker, Margaret Abigail
مارگارت واکر (نویسنده آمریکایی)
Dates: 
1915-1998
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author
creator
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performer
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Bantam Books
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Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)
Giovanni, Nikki (1943-...)
Graham, Maryemma
Graham, Maryemma (1949-...)
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
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McKay, Claude (1890-1948)
New Orleans University (isAffiliatedWith)
University of Iowa
Walker, Margaret
Titles: 
Anthology of Negro poetry.
BORN FREE
Come down from yonder mountain
Conversations with Margaret Walker
Cucumber sandwiches and fishnet tights
Flieht wie ein Vogel auf eure Berge Roman
For my people
Jubilee ; a Civil War novel
Jubilee : roman
Margaret Walker Alexander reads Langston Hughes, P. L. Dunbar, J. W. Johnson
Office practice.
On being female, black, and free : essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992
Poetic equation
Prophets for a new day
Richard Wright, daemonic genius a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work
Sklavin Roman
Their place on the stage : black women playwrights in America
This is my century new and collected poems
Notes: 
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)
Associated Group: New Orleans University Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) United States. Works Progress Administration University of Iowa Jackson State College Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People
Associated Language:
For my people, 1942
Fuller form of personal name: Margaret Abigail
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)
Poets Novelists College teachers
Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1998 obit. (Margaret Walker Alexander, 83, died Nov. 30, 1998, in Chicago; African American short story writer, poet, and novelist)
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))
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1965
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