Mel was by now a qualified lawyer specializing in civil rights. Two and a half years later the couple had a daughter, Rebecca. AW
's family, especially her father, were at first staggered by her...
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Alice Walker
AW
made several new writer friends during her Mississippi years. Both Giovanni
and Jordan
visited her.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
198, 199-201
At the end of this time she again reconnected with Diana Young
.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
216-17
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Bessie Head
After a painful break in her life, with some friendships ruptured over struggles to get her third novel published and evade taxes, BH
acquired two new literary friends. First the US poet Nikki Giovanni
...