Minnie Lou Walker

On her fifteenth birthday AW dedicated a scrapbook of mementoes, including her own poems and stories, to those who have inspired me most: her mother , father , sister Ruth , an uncle and several teachers.

AW published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, which in draft had been titled What Can the Righteous Do?, and which was dedicated to her mother and her husband .

Minnie Lou Walker , mother of AW , died at the age of eighty.

Alice's mother, born Minnie Lou (for Tallulah) Grant , was one of a family of twelve children of an unhappy marriage. From childhood she would stand up to her violent father, and she chose a...

AW published another volume of poems, Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, titled from the words her mother had spoken over her father 's casket at his funeral.

In a preface to Roland L. Freeman 's A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories, 1996, AW wrote of her mother 's quilting: I just feel really good and...