Harlem Renaissance | Harlem Renaissance
Jan.03.2011
"The best kind of historical mystery: good history, good mystery, all wrapped up in a voice so authentic you feel it has come out of the past to whisper in your ear." -- Lee Child, author of Worth Dying For
Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub...
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Nov.03.2009
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose...
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Mar.07.2009
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism...
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Nov.15.2008
Years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister's suicide.
What caused her to take her life? Why did she marry a man she barely knew, giving him a claim to the family home? Why did...
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Sep.06.2008
Adam’s Belle is a roller coaster ride through the life of the late Isabel Washington Powell. This first-person narrative charges through Isabel’s life from her early childhood days as a baby “drama queen” in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia to her stage debut kicking up her heels at Harlem’s...
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Jan.04.2008
Essays, poems, two plays, and excerpts from novels sample the witty satire and politically charged storytelling and cultural criticism that has made Reed one of the best known U.S. writers. His settings include the Harlem Renaissance, antebellum plantations, the mythical never-never land of the...
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