Writings
Main Author: | Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. |
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Corporate Authors: | Library of America (Firm) |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam,
2004.
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Series: |
Library of America ;
145 |
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Physical Description: |
x, 906 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. |
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ISBN: |
1931082529 (alk. paper) |
Author Notes: |
Among his most famous writings are Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, published anonymously in 1912, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), the winner of the Harmon Gold Award. He was also editor of several anthologies of African-American poetry and spirituals, and in 1933 his autobiography, Along This Way, was published. He served as Secretary to the NAACP from 1916 to 1930 and was a professor of literature at Fisk University in Nashville from 1930 until his death in 1938. (Bowker Author Biography) |