About
An American poet and writer of the twentieth-century African-American literary movement in Chicago, she is most known for works such as Jubilee (a 1966 novel) and For My People (a 1942 poem).
Before Fame
She worked for the Federal Writers' Project under the Works Progress Administration.
Trivia
She set many of her works in the Civil War-era American South.
Family Life
She was raised in Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. She later had four children with Firnist Alexander.
Associated With
She and Richard Wright were both members of the South Side Writers Group.
