Black Authors

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

First published in 1937 in the US by Lee Furman, Inc. This edition based on original cover and text.A Jamaican-born writer describes his experience...

2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. "Here is a young man, born ...

From the late 1910s to the mid 1930s, Harlem, New York City, was the center of an explosion of African-American social, artistic, and intellectual ...

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (1890-1948) was a Jamaican-born American poet and writer famous for his central role in the Harlem Renaissance. A...

Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published toward the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, Sp...

Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a...

Harlem Shadows (1922) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows earned praise from ...

First published in 1912, "Constab Ballads" is a classic poetry collection with the main focus based on the police force of McKay's time, including ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...

With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through th...

A Jamaican girl, Bita Plant, who was adopted and sent to be educated in England by white missionary benefactors, returns to her native village of B...

Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as "Banjo," prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking,...