BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bell, Bernice L., and Robert A. Harris. “Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker.” In Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker, edited by Maryemma Graham, pp. 319-40. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Complete list of primary and secondary works.

Brookhart, Mary Hughes. “Bibliography for Margaret Walker.” In Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, edited by Robert Bain and Joseph M. Flora, pp. 511-14. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Extensive list of primary and secondary works.

BIOGRAPHIES

Debo, Annette. “Margaret Walker.” In Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson, pp. 469-74. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Overview of Walker's biography, major works and themes, as well as the critical reception to her works.

Freeman, Roland L. Margaret Walker's “For My People”: A Tribute. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1992, 36 p.

Photographic tribute to Walker on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of For My People.

Miller, R. Baxter. “‘To a Place Blessed’: For Margaret Walker.” African American Review 33, no. 1 (spring 1999): 5-6.

Brief, laudatory review of Walker's life and works following her death.

Pettis, Joyce. “Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South.” In Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, edited by Tonette Bond, pp. 9-19. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Bio-critical look at Walker's career, emphasizing her Southern connections.

CRITICISM

Fabré, Michel. “Margaret Walker's Richard Wright: A Wrong Righted or Wright Wronged?” Mississippi Quarterly 42 (1989): 429-50.

Discussion of Walker's book on Wright.

Graham, Maryemma. Introduction to On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1921-1992, p. 246. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

Graham places Walker's work in the context of her times.

Harris, Trudier. “Black Writers in a Changed Landscape, Since 1950.” In The History of Southern Literature, edited by Louis D. Rubin, pp. 66-77. Baton Rouge, La.: Lousiana State University Press, 1985.

Background information on the literary milieu in which Walker worked.

Hill, Roy L. “Margaret Walker: For My People—A Folk Analysis.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1990): 117-20.

Analysis of Walker's affinity for the Southern oral-poetry tradition.

Traylor, Eleanor. “‘Bolder Measures Crashing Through’: Margaret Walker's Poem of the Century.” Callaloo 10 (fall 1987): 570-95.

Discusses Walker's “For My People.”

Walker, Margaret, and Patricia Grierson. “An Interview with Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander on Tennessee Williams.” Mississippi Quarterly 48 (fall 1995): 587-88.

Walker's comments on her contemporary, Tennessee Williams.

Additional coverage of Walker's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: African American Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 3; Black Writers, Eds. 2, 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76, 172; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 26, 54, 76; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 6; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Poets, Ed. 7; Contemporary Southern Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 76, 152; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural Authors; Exploring Poetry; Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 20; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; and 20th-Century Romance and Historical Writers.