At Sarah Lawrence, she wrote later, everyody understood that writing was about your heart and your soul and . . nobody cared about what you wore or if your hair was done the right way....
Friends, Associates
Alice Walker
Her nurturing friendship with Muriel Rukeyser
never recovered from her ceasing to deal with Rukeyser's intimate Monica McCall
as her agent. Rukeyser wrote her a letter of reproach in May 1975; Walker wrote back at...
Textual Production
Alice Walker
AW
said she felt at the time that she was fighting for her own life. She wrote the story with tears pouring down my cheeks.
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
119
Muriel Rukeyser
sent it to Hughes, who proved victorious...
Textual Production
Alice Walker
The student AWstuffed her poems under Muriel Rukeyser
's door.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
She was in Rukeyser's class at the time, and this bold approach to an admired and established poet paid off. Rukeyser passed the poems...
