Willie Lee 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.

Willie Lee Walker , father of AW , died at sixty-three from the effects of emphysema, diabetes, and pneumonia.

Alice's father, Willie Lee Walker was the eldest child of a disastrous marriage, who had learned early to keep his head down and his emotions hidden. In the depression, in the early thirties, he and...

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.