Bontemps, Arna, The Harlem Renaissance Remembered, Dodd, Mead, 1972.
This is a collection of essays by a writer and thinker
who participated in the Harlem Renaissance. The second
chapter provides a useful overview of the period.
Hughes, Langston, The Big Sea, Hill and Wang, 1993.
Hughes's autobiography was originally published in
1940. This is a reprint of his memories of his life as
a poet in Harlem and as a cook and waiter in various
Paris nightclubs during the 1920s.
Lewis, David L., When Harlem Was in Vogue, Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
This book is a social history of.....
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