Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance writers were Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Claude Mc Kay.
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Countee Cullen---------------------------------------------------------------
A leading poet in the Harlem Renaissance. Some of his works include Colors (1926) and Copper Sun (1927).
Langston Hughes------------------------------------------------------------
He wrote mainly about black life. He was a poet, novelist, and playwright. His first book was The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Some of his works include The Weary Blues (1926), Clothes to the Jew (1927) and Raisin in the Sun.
Raisin in the Sun
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over -
Like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Zora Neale Hurston---------------------------------------------------------
She published her first story, John Redding Goes to Sea, in a literary magazine at her college. She published a magazine with Hughes and others of her time called Fire!!. Zora was a writer and a poet. Many of her stories were based on religion.
James Weldon Johnson---------------------------------------------------
James Weldon Johnson was an American writer and educator. He was a founder and secretary of the NAACP.
Claude Mc Kay-----------------------------------------------------------
Mc Kay was a Jamaican American who flourished during the Harlem Renaissance. He was a novelist and poet. One of his novels is Home to Harlem which was published in 1928.