Margaret Walker

American poet and writer (1915-1998).

Born July 7th, 1915 in Birmingham. [ref]

Died November 30th, 1998 at 83 years old in Chicago (breast cancer). [ref]

Occupations
novelist, poet, university teacher, writer
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks