Quick Facts

• 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

Best Known For

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