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Toni Morrison and Alice Walker fans take note! Revealing Margaret Walker's writings, including extensive journal material, in this large volume is a landmark study in the literary power of Black writers and reflects deeply on the challenges endured by Black women writers of her era. Including brief notes of the politics of the time makes this highly accessible.

— Oct 01, 2023 08:00AM

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

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Although she died in 1998, the breadth and depth of Margaret Walker's prescient ideas for social change are still relevant now.

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Jubilee depicts US history during reconstruction, following the Civil War, gender relations, and MW's family history and became a predecessor to novels such as Beloved by Toni Morrison.

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Margaret Walker was much more than a literary trailblazer, she courageously faced the turmoil of violent Southern racism backlash following the Supreme Court's Brown decision, including Emmett Till. I am compelled to know if MW knew Mamie Till.

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Gwendolyn Brooks was a contemporary writer with Margaret Walker and they met in Chicago (1930s).

— Sep 13, 2023 05:16AM

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This fascinating, in-depth biography spans Margaret Walker's writing life from early poems and Journaling at age 10 onwards. With Maryemma Graham's extensive knowledge as the founder of The Project on the History of Black Writing, I am most curious with each encounter Walker enjoys with the luminaries such as Langston Hughes!

— Sep 11, 2023 07:40AM