With the blooming of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Johnson became widely known as a writer and an intellectual.
His book was re-issued by Knopf, an influential firm that published many of the Harlem Renaissance writers, and for the first time Johnson acknowledged that he was the author. This time, the book was widely sold and discussed, and it has remained in print ever since.
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