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Margaret Walker: Biographical Note

Donna Allego

Dr.

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Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander's contributions to American letters--four volumes of poetry, a novel, a biography, and numerous critical essays--mark her as one of this country's most gifted Black intellectuals. These accomplishments, as well as fellowships and awards that she has earned, garner her much deserved praise, but they are even more remarkable given that she achieved most of them after 1943 when she was a college professor and a wife and mother of four children.

Although the cumulative demands of these pursuits would have broken the spirit of others, Walker prevailed, and in so doing reached beyond her advantaged middle class background to strengthen her race by leaving them (and all of us) a nurturing literary legacy.

Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama.

Her father, a well educated minister, and mother, a music teacher, provided an environment in which their daughter thrived. Walker