Weldon "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (1912), James Weldon Johnsons first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle account of racial passing, initially published as an anonymous memoir. Its veracitymany believed it to be a genuine autobiographyhas made it one of the undisputed masterpieces of African American literature and established Johnson in the African American literary vanguard of the first half of the…
Author: James Weldon Johnson; William L. Andrews (ed.) · Original publisher: Library of America (New York, 2004)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. Public domain in part: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), God's Trombones (1927), the Book of American Negro Poetry preface material (1922) and the Black Manhattan excerpt (1930) are public domain; Along This Way (1933), also in this volume, is not. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) Only the public-domain original works named here are hosted on this page; the modern volume's own editorial material is not hosted. The public-domain texts are held in fulltexts/ as `3844-james-weldon-johnson-writings-library-of-america.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
