James Weldon Johnson: Writings (LOA #145)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / essays and editorials / selected poems
$117.14
- Hardcover
828 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2004
Summary
James Weldon Johnson’s career was one of extraordinary range, spanning the worlds of diplomacy (as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua), politics (as Secretary of the NAACP), journalism (as founder of one newspaper and longtime editor of another), musical theater (as lyricist for the Broadway songwriting team of Cole and Johnson Brothers), and literature (as novelist, poet, and anthologist). At the dawning of what would become the modern civil rights movement, he forged a record of accompl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082525 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931082529 |
| Author: | James Weldon Johnson |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 828 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 599g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 135mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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Critics Review
“The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man established James Weldon Johnson as the first truly modern black American novelist, while his Along This Way, published two decades later (in 1933), recounted his rich life as a diplomat, journalist, songwriter, and secretary to the NAACP. This collection of his writings, which includes both of those longer works plus several rare essays, poems, and songs, is yet another important volume in The Library of America series.” — Dallas Morning News
About The Author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University-experiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way. Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God’s Trombones- Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.
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