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For My People

A collection of poetry and lyrical ballads by a contemporary Negro poetess who exhibits the influence and pride of her heritage

By Margaret Walker

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Paperback:

9780685005095 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1969, cover price $17.95

9780405019029 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1968, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry and lyrical ballads by a contemporary Negro poetess who exhibits the influence and pride of her heritage

Prophets for a New Day.

Nat Turner, Civil Rights demonstrations, and Malcolm X are considered in this collection of poems dealing with the struggle for racial equality in America

By Margaret Walker

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9780910296212 | Broadside Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $2.00 | About this edition: Nat Turner, Civil Rights demonstrations, and Malcolm X are considered in this collection of poems dealing with the struggle for racial equality in America

October Journey

By Margaret Walker

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Paperback:

9780910296960, titled "October Journey." | Broadside Pr, January 1, 1973, cover price $1.50

How I Wrote Jubilee

By Margaret Walker

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Paperback:

9780883780251 | Third World Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $1.50

A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

Product Description: Conversations about issues from how to raise a child to the Vietnam War to how to save the African-American race that white America is trying to destroy.

By Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

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9780882580883 | Reprint edition (Howard Univ Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Conversations about issues from how to raise a child to the Vietnam War to how to save the African-American race that white America is trying to destroy.

Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius : A Portrait of the Man a Critical Look at His Work

A friend and fellow writer offers a portrait of the late American novelist, discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works

By Margaret Walker

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Hardcover:

9780446710015 | New edition (Grand Central Pub, November 1, 1988), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A friend and fellow writer offers a portrait of the late American novelist, discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works

Paperback:

9781567430042 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, January 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A friend and fellow writer offers a portrait of the late American novelist, discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works

Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci With a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career As an Artist

By Martin Kemp (editor) and Margaret Walker (trans)

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Paperback:

9780300045093 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $16.95

This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

Product Description: 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...read more

By Margaret Walker

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9780820311340 | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780820311357 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: 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.

How I Wrote Jubilee: And Other Essays on Life and Literature

A distinguished black woman writer brings together autobiographical and literary essays, speeches, and other writings that include reminiscences of the young Richard Wright, Walker's battle against racism and sexism, and the creative process

By Margaret Walker

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Hardcover:

9781558610033 | Feminist Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A distinguished black woman writer brings together autobiographical and literary essays, speeches, and other writings that include reminiscences of the young Richard Wright, Walker's battle against racism and sexism, and the creative process

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9781558610040, titled "How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature" | Feminist Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A distinguished black woman writer brings together autobiographical and literary essays, speeches, and other writings that include reminiscences of the young Richard Wright, Walker's battle against racism and sexism, and the creative process

Interview With Margaret Walker

By Margaret Walker

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556443695 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $13.95

God Touched My Life: The Inspiring Autobiography of the Nun Who Brought Song, Celebration, and Soul to the World

The nun who encouraged black Catholics to express their cultural roots inside the church discusses her childhood in Mississipi, her decision to become a nun, and her commitment to ridding the world of racial differences.

By Thea Bowman and Margaret Walker

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Hardcover:

9780062520128 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The nun who encouraged black Catholics to express their cultural roots inside the church discusses her childhood in Mississipi, her decision to become a nun, and her commitment to ridding the world of racial differences.

Margaret Walker's "for My People": A Tribute

Product Description: A stunning photo essay commemorating Margaret Walker's poem, "for My People." Beautiful and moving tribute to Walker.

By Roland L. Freeman and Margaret Walker

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Hardcover:

9780878056132 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A stunning photo essay commemorating Margaret Walker's poem, "for My People.

On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Maryemma Graham (editor) and Margaret Walker

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9780870499807 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780870499814 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

Leonardo on Painting

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By Martin Kemp (editor) and Margaret Walker (trans)

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9780300090956 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $25.00

Conversations With Margaret Walker

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By Maryemma Graham (editor) and Margaret Walker

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9781578065127 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 2002, cover price $25.00

Cucumber Sandwiches & Fishnet Tights

Product Description: Margaret Walker's teenage dream was to be a vicar's wife. But was life in the vicarage what she expected when she set out to enmesh and marry a would-be vicar? Tears of laughter, tears of compassion, tears of joy and tears of sorrow have followed her through assorted flavours of Yorkshire life to Wales and into semi-retirement...read more

By Margaret Walker

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9781844263554 | Upfront, March 30, 2006, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Margaret Walker's teenage dream was to be a vicar's wife.

Away With the Vicar

Product Description: It took a long time to stop laughing at Margaret Walker's 'Cucumber Sandwiches and Fishnet Tights'. Now she's doing it all over again. Sorry, we know you ran out of tissues to dry your eyes; you'll just have to get some more now. This time it's Swarfega instead of cucumber in the sandwiches...read more

By Margaret Walker

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9781844264520 | Upfront, August 30, 2007, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: It took a long time to stop laughing at Margaret Walker's 'Cucumber Sandwiches and Fishnet Tights'.

Don't Eat the Cat

By Margaret Walker

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Paperback:

9781844266234 | Upfront, June 30, 2009, cover price $13.50

Jubilee

The daughter of a plantation owner and his Negro mistress struggle to survive in the war-torn South

By Margaret Walker

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Hardcover:

9780553110807 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1967, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: The daughter of a plantation owner and his Negro mistress struggle to survive in the war-torn South

9780395082881 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1966, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Civil War novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother who was the child of a Negro slave and a white plantation owner

Paperback:

9780395924952 | Mariner Books, January 21, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction

9780553273830 | Bantam Books, January 1, 1991, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The daughter of a plantation owner and his Negro mistress struggle to survive in the war-torn South

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504703987 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 6, 2016), cover price $44.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556443688 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, September 1, 1991, cover price $13.95

Reinforced:

9780606016230 | Demco Media, January 1, 1991, cover price $13.76 | About this edition: The daughter of a plantation owner and his Negro mistress struggle to survive in the war-torn South

Prebinding:

9781439501054 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $19.95

9780613292733 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $22.05 | About this edition: A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction

9780808514305 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.55

Jubilee: 50th Anniversary Edition

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 experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

By Margaret Walker

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Paperback:

9780544812123 | Anv edition (Mariner Books, September 6, 2016), cover price $12.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504704069 | Una anv edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 6, 2016), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress.

9781504703901 | Una anv edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 6, 2016), cover price $123.00

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