Come Read With Us!

Join the Souther Writers Book Discussion Group on Saturday, February 2, 1 p.m. in the Children's Story Room when we discuss Jubilee by Margaret Walker. Copies are available for borrowing at the Greenwood County Library. For more information about the Library's book discussion programs, please contact Prudence Taylor at 941 - 4650.

Written by Marget Walker over a thirty year period, Jubilee is based on the life of Walker's great - grandmother, Elvira Dozier Ware. The daughter of a slave woman, Hetta, and the plantation's master, John, Vyry is raised in her father's house as a servant to her half - sister, Lillian. Walker breaks Vyry's life - and the book - into three parts: before the Civil War, during the War, and through Reconstruction.



Margaret Walker was a gifted poet and writer who studied at Northwestern University and the University of Iowa. She worked as a social worker, newspaper reporter, and magazine editor before beginning her long teaching career. In 1942 she published her first book, For My People, a series of poems she wrote as her Master's thesis at the Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. She received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and was named to the Honor Roll of Race Relations by the New York Public Library for her book.