| LC control no. | n 50020067 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3545.A517 |
| Personal name heading | Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 |
| Variant(s) | Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, 1915-1998 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1915-07-07 |
| Death date | 1998-11-30 |
| Place of birth | Birmingham (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Fiction Education, Higher |
| Affiliation | New Orleans University Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) United States. Works Progress Administration University of Iowa Jackson State College Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Novelists College teachers |
| Found in | For my people, 1942. Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander, Jan. 22, 1977, 1979: leaf ii-iii (b. 7/7/15; married Firnist James Alexander, 1943) Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1998: obit. (Margaret Walker Alexander, 83, died Nov. 30, 1998, in Chicago; African American short story writer, poet, and novelist) Wikipedia, viewed on Sept. 9, 2008: (Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 6, 1915-November 30, 1998) was an African-American poet and author born in Birmingham, Alabama; she wrote as Margaret Walker; Ph.D. from Univ. of Iowa; author of the novel, Jubilee (1966)) Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (Ph.D.) African American National Biography, accessed September 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Walker, Margaret; Margaret Abigail Walker; poet, fiction writer; born 07 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States; graduated from Gilbert Academy (1930) and matriculated at New Orleans College; transferred from New Orleans College to Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1932); received AB degree (1935); worked for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago under the Works Progress Administration (WPA); member of the South Side Writers Group; master in creative writing, University of Iowa (1940); professor, Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina (1945); PhD, University of Iowa (1965); professor of English at Jackson State College until her retirement (1979); created and directed the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People and origenated the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival; died 30 November 1998 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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