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4 unusual facts about Margaret Walker


Margaret Alexander

Margaret Walker (1915–1998) (born as Margaret Alexander), African-American poet and writer

Margaret Walker

In 1975, Walker released three albums of poetry on Folkways Records - Margaret Walker Alexander Reads Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes; Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes; and The Poetry of Margaret Walker.

Wright v. Warner Books was dismissed by the district court, and this judgment was supported by the appeals court.

Wright v. Warner Books

Wright v. Warner Books (1991) was a case in which the widow of the author Richard Wright (1908-1960) claimed that his biographer, the poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-1998), had infringed copyright by using content from some of Wright's unpublished letters and journals.


Henry Dumas

Writer Margaret Walker and musicians James Brown and John Coltrane proved to be major influences on his writing at this time.


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Volney F. Warner

On August 18, 2005, Warner's granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, was killed in action in Delak, Afghanistan, making her the first female West Point graduate to die in combat.