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Margaret Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama on July 7, 1915.
* She was a poet, novelist, and civil rights activist.
* Her most famous work is the poem "For My People," which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1942.
* She also wrote the novel "Jubilee," which was published in 1966.
* Walker was a professor at Jackson State University from 1949 to 1979.
* She was a member of the National Council of Negro Women and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
* She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1992.
* She died on November 30, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois.

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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
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