Margaret Walker Biography

Margaret Walker biography

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NAME: Margaret Walker
OCCUPATION: Author, Poet
BIRTH DATE: July 07, 1915
DEATH DATE: November 30, 1998
EDUCATION: Northwestern University, University of Iowa
PLACE OF BIRTH: Birmingham, Alabama
PLACE OF DEATH: Chicago, Illinois
Full Name: Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander

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Margaret Walker is best known for writing on the African-American experience through fiction and poetry.

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Margaret Walker was born July 7, 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Walker joined the Federal Writer's Project after graduating from Northwestern University. She wrote novels and poems about the African-American experience from the time of slavery up to the Civil Rights Movement. Walker taught at Jackson State University until her retirement in 1979.