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Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

poet

  • University of Iowa, Northwestern University

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Jubilee
Jubilee
Jubilee
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Conversations with Margaret Walker
On Being Female, Black, and Free
Richard Wright, daemonic genius
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature
Prophets for a New Day
October journey
Away With the Vicar
This is my century
How I wrote Jubilee
Cucumber Sandwiches & Fishnet Tights
Jubilee
Moral Understandings
Jubilee
Margaret Walker's "For my people"
Jubilee
For my people
Margaret Walker Alexander reads Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker
Jubilee (excerpts)
Interview With Margaret Walker
For my people
Letters and Second Indian Journal
Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander, January 22, 1977
For my people
Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen (1889-1949)

literary critic, poet, biographer, teacher

  • University of Pittsburgh, Shady Side Academy

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The forest and the fort
Anthony Adverse
Israfel
Bedford Village
Toward the morning
Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse, Part 1
Toward the flame
The city in the dawn
Anthony Adverse.
Du Bose Heyward
It was like this
Christmas epithalamium
Anthony Adverse, Part 3
The blindman
Earth moods
Carolina Chansons
Action at Aquila
Carolina Chansons
New legends
The bride of Huitzil
Carolina chansons
Anthony Adverse, Part 2
Carolina Chansons, Legends of the Low Country
Israfel, the life and times of Edgar Allan Poe
Sarah Simon
Israfel
Toward the flame; a war diary
Wampum and old gold
Anthony Adverse
The sources of Anthony Adverse
Ballads of the border
Lute and Scimitar
Songs for Annette
Wampum and old gold
Du Bose Heyward
The forest and the fort
Israfel
Alfred Hayes
Alfred Hayes (1911-1985)

poet

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In love
My face for the world to see
All thy conquests
Welcome to the castle
Just before the divorce
Shadow of heaven : a novel
The big time
Un amore
My face for the world to see
Une jolie fille comme ça
The girl on the Via Flaminia
The temptation of Don Volpi
The end of me
The stockbroker, the bitter young man, and the beautiful girl
Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland (1857-1945)

autobiographer, poet

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Wisdom of Fools
Old Chester tales
John Ward, preacher
Florida days
Around Old Chester
Small things
Florida days
Sidney
Where the laborers are few
Small things
Mr. Tommy Dove: And Other Stories
An Old Chester secret
Old Chester tales
John Ward, preacher
The Way to Peace
The promises of Alice
The vehement flame
R. J.'s mother, and some other people
Dr. Lavendar's people
Sidney
The way to peace
Mr. Tommy Dove
The old garden
The common way
Dr. Lavendar's people by Margaret Deland
The voice
Small things
Partners
The iron woman
Around Old Chester
An Old Chester secret
The wisdom of fools
The Awakening of Helena Richie
Philip and his wife
The rising tide
Good for the soul
The iron woman
Old Chester Days
An Old Chester Secret
Mr. Tommy Dove, And Other Stories
Around Old Chester
The Iron Woman
The Wisdom of Fools
Partners
Philip And His Wife
Good For The Soul
Golden yesterdays
Small Things
The old garden, and other verses
The wisdom of fools
The Rising Tide
The old garden and other verses
Old Chester Tales
John Ward, Preacher
R. J's mother and some other people
The hands of Esau
If This Be I, As I Suppose It Be
John Ward Preacher
Dr. Lavendar's people
The common way
Many Waters
An encore
R.J.'s mother
Philip and his wife
Way to Peace
Old Chester days
Mr. Tommy Dove
The story of a child in old Chester
Sidney
The voice
The rising tide
Way to Peace
Dr. Lavendar's People
Partners
The vehement flame
The promises of Alice
The story of a child
John Ward, preacher
Sidney
John Ward, Preacher
Captain Archer's daughter
Iron Woman:(illustrated Edition)
Iron Woman Illustrated
Iron Woman-Original Edition(Annotated)
Reencuentro
The Rising Tide
Where the Laborers Are Few
Iron Woman
Sidney
An Old Chester Secret
Dr. Lavendar's People
The Kays
Iron Woman (Illustrated)
Around Old Chester
The Voice
Old Chester Tales (Illustrated)
Iron Woman Annotated and Illustrated
Doctor Lavendar's People
Iron Woman by Margaret Deland Student Edition and Annotated Edition
Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock
Partners
The Way to Peace
Iron Woman Illustrated
Iron Woman (Annotated Edition)
A Summer day
New friends in old Chester
The Vehement Flame
The old garden
Old Chester Secret
Way to Peace
Iron Woman Illustrate
The Awakening of Helena Richie
John Ward Preacher
Iron Woman by Margaret Deland
John Ward, Preacher
Iron Woman Annotated
Iron Woman (Annotated)
Voice
John Ward, preacher
Old Chester tales
If this be I, as I suppose it be
Dr. Lavendar's people
THE RISING TIDE
Old garden & other verses
Old garden and other verses
Mary Jane Carr
Mary Jane Carr (1895-1988)

journalist, poet

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Young Mac of Fort Vancouver
Children of the covered wagon
Children of the covered wagon
Peggy and Paul and Laddy
Karel Schulz
Karel Schulz (1899-1943)

poet, journalist, editing staff

  • Charles University, Charles University

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Kámen a bolest
Legendy a invokace
Papežská mše
Peníz z noclehárny
Pochvala svatých patronů českých k povzbuzení, abychom je vroucně vzývali v tento čas přenebezpečný
Kamień i cierpienie
Sever, jih, západ, východ
Blázen před zrcadlem a jiné prózy
Zygmunt Kaczkowski
Zygmunt Kaczkowski (1825-1896)

poet

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Anuncjata
Olbrachtowi rycerze
Wasi ojcowie
Dzieła Zygmunta Kaczkowskiego
Bracia ślubni
Opowiadania nieczui
Murdello
Murdelio
Murdeljo
Starosta hołobucki
Rozbitek
Wybór pism
Mąź szalony
Kobieta w Polsce
Rewolucyjne sady i wyroki
Grób Nieczui
Teka Nieczui
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 1990)

poet, playwright

  • University of Cambridge

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