When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, "For My People," won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher. When her novel "Jubilee" was published to great acclaim in 1966, the "New York Review of Books" said, " It] chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondages."
"Jubilee" is noteworthy for being one of the first novels to present African American history from both a black and female perspective. It is a historical and fictional account of Walker's...
When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, "For My People," won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning h...
