Walker, Margaret 1915-1998

Overview

Works:	154 works in 501 publications in 5 languages and 23,830 library holdings
Genres:	History Poetry Fiction Biography Juvenile works Interviews Documentary films Nonfiction films Biographical films Documentary television programs
Roles:	Author, Performer, Other, Narrator, Author of introduction, Lyricist, Translator
Classifications:	PS3545.A517, 813.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Margaret Walker

From the dark tower : Afro-American writers (1900 to 1960) by Arthur Paul Davis( Book )
Black American poets between worlds, 1940-1960 by R. Baxter Miller( Book )
How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature by Margaret Walker( Book )
Conversations with Margaret Walker by Margaret Walker( Book )
Women poets on the left : Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker by Nancy Berke( Book )

Modern black American poets and dramatists( Book )
Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker by Maryemma Graham( Book )
Song of my life : a biography of Margaret Walker by Carolyn J Brown( Book )
For My People : the Life And Writing Of Margaret Walker( Visual )
Jubilee : and related readings by Margaret Walker( Book )
This is her century : a study of Margaret Walker's work by Doaa AbdelHafez Hamada( Book )
Mississippi writers : a portfolio of portraits( Book )
Margaret Walker interview with Kay Bonetti by Margaret Walker( Recording )
Poetry criticism, excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature by Carol T Gaffke( Book )
Black women writers (1950-1980) : a critical evaluation by Mari Evans( Book )
Cucumber sandwiches and fishnet tights by Margaret Walker( Book )
Away with the Vicar by Margaret Walker( Book )
For my people : the life and writing of Margaret Walker by Judith McCray( Visual )
Twentieth-century literary criticism by Janet Witalec( )
Contemporary Black biography, profiles from the international Black community( )

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Most widely held works by Margaret Walker

Jubilee by Margaret Walker( Book )

103 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 6 languages and held by 3,456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The fortunes of a mulatto girl as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation

Richard Wright, daemonic genius : a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work by Margaret Walker( Book )

12 editions published between 1985 and 1993 in English and held by 1,378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Richard Wright was first a black man and second a writer. The life of this black man is inextricably bound to his writing. Author of 16 books, his first published volume appeared in 1938, when he was 30 years old. When he died at age 52, 22 years later, he had published a dozen books. I have divided rights life and work into five periods: his first 19 years in the violent white South, including his childhood and adolescence; 10 years of maturation in Chicago, when he became a revolutionary, a bohemian, and a professional writer; 10 years of professional success and personal frustration in New York; 10 years of seeking freedom and Paris; and, finally, his last two or three years of trauma and tragedy. Then, I have followed a general outline of relating his published works -- books, articles, poetry, and speeches -- to his life. Each period of his life was dominated by a set of ideas and philosophies that he personally embraced and then inculcated in his writing. A man motivated by ideas and novelist of ideas, his intellectual stature is a first consideration. His intellectual development and his Weltanschauung, or worldview, place him in the forefront of 20th century life and culture, and it is in this area that this book seeks to break ground. - Preface

For my people by Margaret Walker( Book )

50 editions published between 1942 and 2011 in English and held by 1,342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Leonardo on painting : an anthology of writings by Leonardo( Book )

13 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and held by 1,077 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Leonardo's writings on painting were never edited by Leonardo himself into a coherent treatise. The book known as Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, first published in 1651, comprises a compilation of quotations, described by one early translator as a "chaos of intelligence." This anthology aims to bring order into the chaos, so Leonardo's views can be read in a logical and sequential manner. The authors have edited material not only from the Treatise but also from Leonardo's surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which are here translated for the first time. Included among these are Leonardo's own letters and memoranda, letters by contemporaries, and important documents to which he was a signatory. The book begins by looking at Leonardo's general principles of painting. Then follow sections on the optical foundations of art, the human body, the appearance of nature, and the practice of painting, including instructions for the artist and evocative accounts of subject matter.--From publisher description

A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker by Nikki Giovanni( Book )

14 editions published between 1974 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,052 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is my century : new and collected poems by Margaret Walker( Book )

14 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Brings together one hundred of Margaret Walker's poems

On being female, black, and free : essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 by Margaret Walker( Book )

11 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

These highly personal essays, written over the course of six decades, reveal the woman as well as the artist, capturing the independent creative spirit of this literary icon. In accessible and stirring prose, Walker speaks directly about her own experiences - such as growing up in a deeply religious home, living in the Jim Crow South, marrying and raising a family, and becoming a civil rights activist. These essays also offer Walker's critical perspectives on a wide range of topics, from the role of the black woman artist to the distinctiveness of African American cultural life and to the importance of education in the fight for political change. Maryemma Graham's introduction provides a historical context for the essays, placing Walker's work within the African American literary canon. Walker reflects on the numerous poets and writers she has known over the years, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Richard Wright. A work of broad general appeal, On Being Female, Black, and Free offers a powerful introduction to the work of an essential American literary figure

Prophets for a new day by Margaret Walker( Book )

17 editions published between 1970 and 2011 in English and German and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For my people : the life and writing of Margaret Walker by Judith McCray( Visual )

4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Through interviews with writers, scholars, and Walker herself, this documentary examines the life and work of Margaret Walker focusing on the influence that her writing had on Black women writers

October journey by Margaret Walker( Book )

13 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How I wrote Jubilee by Margaret Walker( Book )

6 editions published between 1972 and 1977 in English and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Soul looks back in wonder by Tom Feelings( Book )

1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Artwork and poems by such writers as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Askia Toure portray the creativity, strength, and beauty of their African American heritage

Margaret Walker's "For my people" : a tribute by Roland L Freeman( Book )

2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Half a century ago a young woman published a poem that was destined to reverberate through American life. Here that poem is reprinted with thirty-eight stunning photographs that celebrate it. "For My People" is a resounding catalog of black history, a clarion that refutes the affliction of humiliation, an indelible record of noble accomplishments. Since 1942 this enduring paean to black America has remained an everlasting appeal against racial oppression. "I wrote most of that poem," Margaret Walker says, "in fifteen minutes on a typewriter. I think it was just after my twenty-second birthday, and I felt it was my whole life gushing out - as I had felt about my people all my life." Since that time the astonishing young poet whose voice rose in cadences that praise and honor black America has never ceased to stir minds and hearts to action with her credos. She became indeed the renowned poet, novelist, lecturer, teacher, and sage Margaret Walker Alexander. In commemoration of "For My People," her first publication, and in tribute to her richly productive life, the acclaimed photographer Roland L. Freeman has joined a photo essay to Margaret Walker's poem. "I selected photographs that call to mind the special human elements evoked by Walker, so basic to everyday life, and yet not often celebrated, elements which unravel the real beauty and the tenacity for life of African-American people." With this marvelous collaboration both Walker and Freeman stimulate rejoicing for the spirit of the artist who perceives and depicts the rich and vital culture of black America. In this jubilee year of a momentous poem, "For My People" continues to resound in the hearts of African-Americans and for all who love human freedom

Anthology of Negro poetry by Arna Bontemps( Recording )

11 editions published between 1954 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents selections from the works of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks

Richard Wright : Black boy( Visual )

1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biographical sketch of African-American writer, Richard Wright. Includes a discussion of his literary works and the times in which he lived, weaving together dramatic recreations from Wright's work and recollections of friends and scholars. It follows Wright's journey from a childhood of poverty through the Chicago Black cultural renaissance of the 1930s, the Communist Party during the Depression, the MacCarthy-era, the American expatriate community in 1950s Paris and his final years

The poetry of Margaret Walker by Margaret Walker( )

6 editions published between 1975 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Margaret Walker Alexander reads Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker by Margaret Walker( )

3 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Margaret Walker Alexander reads Langston Hughes, P.L. Dunbar, J.W. Johnson by Margaret Walker( )

4 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in English and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Leonardo on painting : an anthology of writings by Leonardo( Book )

1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English literature by Margaret Walker( Book )

4 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and held by 98 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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