Arna Bontemps was a prominent literary figure throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly notable due to his influence on African American literature and culture. “His career as […]
“When I was a child of 4 or 5, listening to the conversation of my mother and her sisters, I would sometimes intrude on their territory with a solemnly stated […]
William Attaway was most well-known for the novel, Blood on the Forge, a story of three brothers who escape sharecropping life in the south to migrate north and find a new life […]
© Jorge Colombo, the New Yorker In the articles about black authors of the mid-20th century, it is easy to notice a recurring tag accompanying all of their portraits: © […]
This day in 1885, Mark Twain published the popular and controversial, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Now a core of part of the American literary cannon, approximately 200,000 copies are […]
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. Hurston’s literary career hit its stride in the 1930’s and 1940’s when she publishedTheir Eyes Were Watching God; […]
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Arthur Ashe suffered his first heart attack in 1979, while holding a tennis clinic in New York. He was forty-six years old. Despite his peak physical condition as a professional […]