The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - Brossura

Johnson, James Weldon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140184023 ISBN 13: 9780140184020

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1990

Riassunto

The author, the first Black executive secretary of the NAACP, offers a fictionalized account of his life and looks at the consequences of denying one's heritage

Su questo libro

L'autore

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.

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.

Product Description

[...]

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140184023
• ISBN 13: 9780140184020
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 192