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Margaret Walker

Born

in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States

July 07, 1915

Died

November 30, 1998

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Essay

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Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander was an African-American poet and author. She wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her most known poems is "For My People".

Her father Sigismund C. Walker was a Methodist minister and her mother was Marion Dozier Walker. They helped get her started in literature by teaching a lot of philosophy and poetry to her as a child.

In 1935, Walker received her Bachelors of Arts Degree from Northwestern University and in 1936 she began work with the Federal Writers' Project under the Works Progress Administration. In 1942 she received her master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa. In 1965 she returned to that school to earn her Ph.D. She also for a time served as a professor at what is today Jackso ...more

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	Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,487 ratings — published 1966 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For My People 4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems 4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Core Vocabulary: Signs (Makaton Core Vocabulary Book 1) by Margaret Walker, Jackie Cosgrove (Editor), Sharon Davis (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius 3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How I Wrote Jubilee: And Other Essays on Life and Literature 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 by Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animals: Signs (Makaton Animals Book 1) by Margaret Walker, Jane Hodson (Illustrator), Ann Millington (Illustrator) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transport and Vehicles: Signs (Makaton Transport and Vehicles Book 1) by Margaret Walker, Jane Hodson (Illustrator), Ann Millington (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Core Vocabulary: Symbols (Makaton Core Vocabulary Book 2) by Margaret Walker, Jackie Cosgrove (Editor), Dilys Barr (Illustrator) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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“Keeping hatred inside makes you git mean and evil inside. We supposen to love everybody like God loves us. And when you forgives you feels sorry for the one what hurt you, you returns love for hate, and good for evil. And that stretches your heart and makes you bigger inside with a bigger heart so's you can love everybody when your heart is big enough. Your chest gets broad like this, and you can lick the world with a loving heart! Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor. Folks with a loving heart don't never need no doctor.”
― Margaret Walker, Jubilee

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“I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.”
― Margaret Walker, Jubilee

tags: historical-fiction, inspirational

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July 2024 New School Classic Poll

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pages

39 votes, 21.4%

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, 1963, 140 pages

38 votes, 20.9%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922, 232 pages

37 votes, 20.3%

The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, 1958, 349 pages

26 votes, 14.3%

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 1966, 169 pages

20 votes, 11.0%

Ways of Seeing by John Berger, 1972, 176 pages

12 votes, 6.6%

Jubilee by Margaret Walker, 1966, 497 pages

10 votes, 5.5%

182 total votes

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