The selected works of Georgia Douglas Johnson
By: Georgia Douglas Johnson ; introduction by Claudia Tate.
Contributors: Tate, Claudia.
Series: African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall; Prentice Hall International
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: African American women -- Literary collections.; African Americans -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Poet, playwright, and short-fiction writer Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) was a central figure in the New Negro Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Her Washington literary salon, the Round Table, was frequented by such artists and intellectuals as Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Countee Cullen, and Angelina Weld Grimke.

This volume collects some of Johnson's most important work: four volumes of poetry (including The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems); four short stories (one never before published); eight plays (two never before published); and previously unpublished poems from her private papers. In addition, Claudia Tate's revealing introduction offers newly discovered information on Johnson's life and work.