Books by Maryemma Graham

Conversations with Ralph Ellison / How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker (1990)

 On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 (1997);  Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper (1988)

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Books by Margaret Walker

On Being Female, Black and Free  / For My People: A Tribute  /  How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature  / 

This Is My Country: New and Collected Poems  / Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius 

Poetic Equation: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

How I Wrote Jubilee  /  Prophets for a New Day  / Jubilee / For My People

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Conversations with Margaret Walker

Edited by Maryemma Graham

 

Introduction	vii
Chronology	xv
Margaret Walker and Nikki Giovanni: Two Women, two Views   Nikki Giovanni	3
Poetry, History, and Humanism: an Interview with Margaret Walker  Charles H. Rowell	19
Black Women and Oral History: Margaret Walker Alexander  Marcia Greenlee	32
Interview with Margaret Walker  Claudia Tate	59
A Mississippi Writer Talks  John Griffin Jones	72
Interview with Margaret Walker  Ruth Campbell	92
Southern Song: An Interview with Margaret Walker  Lucy M. Freibert	98
A Writer for Her People  Jerry W. Ward, Jr.	113
An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander  Kay Bonetti	125
Looking Back: A Conversation with Margaret Walker  Alferdteen Harrison	137
The Fusion of Ideas: An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander  Maryemma Graham	143
Margaret Walker's Reflections and Celebrations: An Interview  Jacqueline Miller Carmichael	153
Spirituality, Sexuality, and Creativity: A Conversation with Margaret Walker Alexander
Dilla Buckner	172
Conversation: Margaret Walker Alexander  Joanne V. Gabbin	176
Index	189

Maryemma Graham, former Hughes Centennial Committee cochair and symposium director, is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. Founder and director of the Project on the History of Black Writing, she has published more than twenty-five journal articles and essays, and six critical studies, including edited collections on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and African American literature and pedagogy. Recipient of numerous grants and fellowships from NEH, the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian, and the New York Public Library, she is a frequent director of international seminars and public symposia. Dr. Graham edited Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker (Georgia, 2001).

She is the editor of Conversations with Ralph Ellison (University Press of Mississippi, 1995). She also edited How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker (1990), and On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 (1997); Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper (1988)