Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over the next fifty years she enriched American literature in endless ways through her writings and, in 1993, she received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.
This Is My Century is Walker's own defining summation of her career. Selected by the author herself, the one hundred poems include thirty-seven previously uncollected pieces and the entire contents of three hard-to-find volumes:...
Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale...
A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
"Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage." --New York Times Book Review
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday...
A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
