Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 /

Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 / [print] edited by Trudier Harris ; associate editor, Thadious M. Davis. - Detroit, Michigan : Gale Research Company, (c)1987. - xv, 386 pages : illustrations portraits ; 29 cm. - Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 51 .

"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."



Gwendolyn Bennett Arna Bontemps Sterling A. Brown Countee Cullen William Waring Cuney Raymond Garfield Dandridge Frank Marshall Davis S. Randolph Edmonds Jessie Redmon Fauset Rudolph Fisher George Wylie Henderson Leslie Pinckey Hill Frank S. Horne Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Charles Spurgeon Johnson Georgia Douglas Johnson Helene Johnson James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen George Washington Lee John F. Matheus Claude McKay Richard Bruce Nugent Marita Bonner Occomy Ted Poston Willis Richardson George Samuel Schuyler Anne Spencer Wallace Henry Thurman Jean Toomer Waters Edward Turpin Eric Walrond Walter Francis White Appendix: two influential figures ; Alain Locke ; Carl Van Vechten.



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PS153.A258.A376 1987 PS153.N5.H316.A376 1987