Syncopation:
A Harlem Renaissance Anthology
Fiction
Jean Tommer
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God is Zora Neale Hurston's most notable works of fiction. Click on the cover of the novel to read an excerpt from the first chapter.
Nella Larsen
Click on the cover of Nella Larsen's novel Passing to link to the full text. Passing was published in 1929.
Claude McKay
Home to Harlem a novel by Claude McKay was published in 1928. The full text can be accessed by clicking on the image of the novel's cover.
Wallace Thurman
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes published his stories about Jesse B. Simple in the Chicago Defender as a weekly column in 1943. A few of these stories can be heard by cliking the cover of the book Simple Speeks His Mind.
The Blacker the Berry... was published in 1929. Thurman's novel explores issues of race and color conscience. Click on the cover of the novel to access the full text.
Richard Bruce Nugent
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson's play Plumes was publised in 1927. The full play can be found by clicking the image to the right.
Click on the cover of Fire!! to link to Richard Bruce Nugent's story "Smoke, Lillies, and Jade!" The short story was published in Fire!! in November 1926.
