United States, 39.76, -98.51708/2022Jubilee (1966), the only novel published by poet Margaret Walker, was an influential work. It has been described as a neo-slave narrative.Photograph of novelist Margaret Walker. She wears a red jacket and is sitting at her desk. She smiles.Walker's novel Jubilee, the 1966 winner of Houghton Mifflin's Literary Fellowship Award, is one of the first to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from a black and female point of view. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Walker's great-grandmother, Margaret Duggans Ware Brown, who was born a slave in Dawson in Terrell County, Georgia and lived through Reconstruction in southwest Georgia. It is based on stories told to Walker by her maternal grandmother.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jubileeForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jubileeForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaAfrican American women authorsAfrican American authorsAfrican American women novelistsAfrican American novelistsAuthors, AmericanWomen authors, AmericanNovelists, AmericanWomen novelists, AmericanWalker, Margaret, 1915-1998Margaret WalkerStillImage