Margaret Walker
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American poet and writer (1915-1998)
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Margaret Walker Alexander, best known for her neo-slave narrative Jubilee and the poem “For My People,” was born Maragret Abigail Walker on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama. Encouraged by her parents, Reverend Sigismund and Marion Dozier Walker, Margaret read much poetry and philosophy as a young child. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Northwestern University in 1935, and in 1936 began working with the Federal Writer’s Project along with writers such as Frank Yerby and Gwendolyn
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5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,090x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,367x
- Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R
· 2009 · cited 12,572x
- TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data
· 2020 · cited 12,052x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
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Quotes
- “I have learned from the difficult exigencies of life that freedom is a philosophical state of mind and existence. The mind is the only place where I can exist and feel free. In my mind, I am absolutely free.”
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