Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander, a distinguished poet and author who wrote the novel Jubilee, recently died in Chicago at the home of her eldest daughter. She was 83.
A native of Birmingham, AL, and the elder daughter of a Methodist minister, Dr.
Alexander earned her bachelor's degree in English from Northwestern University in 1935. After working in Chicago for the Works Progress Administration as a writer-researcher, she earned a master's degree from the University of Iowa in ...