Margaret walker alexander biography of williams

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          Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer.

        1. Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer.
        2. Margaret Walker Alexander, a poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist, was groomed from birth for a literary life.
        3. The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. presents the story of Bryant's remarkable, pioneering life in the law.
        4. Margaret Walker was an American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the midth century.
        5. Born in Birmingham on July 7, , Margaret Abigail Walker was the daughter of a.

          6. Margaret Walker: Biographical Note

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          Dr. 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