The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker

ISBN-13: 9780195341232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 680 str.

Maryemma Graham

Opis

This biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker takes us inside America in the middle of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of one southern black woman who refused to focus on what was not possible, but what was.

Recenzje

Maryemma Graham's long-anticipated biography of Margaret Walker, The House Where My Soul Lives, is a masterpiece of scholarship and writing, exploring the complicated contours of Walker's personal and professional life with a grace that is both accessible and enthralling...The measure of success of any biography and work of history should be how its lessons inform who we are and teach us how to build a better world around us. In this regard, Maryemma Graham has written her magnum opus. Robert Luckett, Margaret Walker Center Professor, Department of History Jackson State University.

O autorze

Maryemma Graham is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kansas.