# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:47.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-walker"
name: "Margaret Walker"
slug: "margaret-walker"
description: "Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War."
tagline: "American poet and writer (1915-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margaret_Alexander_(13270304753).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-07-07"
deathDate: "1998-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.7
  momentum:             1.216848673946958
  historical:           12.58510133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Margaret Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margaret Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margaret Walker"
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    title: "മാർഗരറ്റ് വാക്കർ"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Walker"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump