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An Interview with Margaret Walker

An Interview with Margaret Walker has lived and taught in Jackson, Mississippi, since 1949. She has published ten books, including five volumes of poetry, one volume of essays, a biography of Richard Wright, and her epic novel of the Civil War, Jubilee. In 1942 she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for For My People, becoming the first American black woman to win a major literary prize in this country. was born in 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of a Methodist minister father and a musician mother. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1935, Walker worked for the WPA in the Chicago area for three years, where she was befriended by Nelson Algren, Jack Conroy, and Richard Wright, through whom she joined the South Side Writers Group. After the very bitter break up of her friendship with Wright, which she wrote about for the first time in her biography, Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius (Warner Books, 1988), Walker went to graduate for a Ph.D. in 1965, with the draft of Jubilee as her dissertation. Of special note: In what is being called a landmark decision on "fair use," the U.S. Court of Appeals in November, 1991, ruled school at the Iowa http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

An Interview with Margaret Walker

Walker, Margaret,.
The Missouri Review , Volume 15 (1) – Oct 5, 1992
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has lived and taught in Jackson, Mississippi, since 1949. She has published ten books, including five volumes of poetry, one volume of essays, a biography of Richard Wright, and her epic novel of the Civil War, Jubilee. In 1942 she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for For My People, becoming the first American black woman to win a major literary prize in this country. was born in 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of a Methodist minister father and a musician mother. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1935, Walker worked for the WPA in the Chicago area for three years, where she was befriended by Nelson Algren, Jack Conroy, and Richard Wright, through whom she joined the South Side Writers Group. After the very bitter break up of her friendship with Wright, which she wrote about for the first time in her biography, Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius (Warner Books, 1988), Walker went to graduate for a Ph.D. in 1965, with the draft of Jubilee as her dissertation. Of special note: In what is being called a landmark decision on "fair use," the U.S. Court of Appeals in November, 1991, ruled school at the Iowa

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