... of literature of the twentieth century were written by African-American writers during the Harlem Renaissance. Some of the most well known authors of the movement were Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer. Claude McKay was the most prolific of the three, but Toomer was the most influential in his writing. All three of these authors inspired a generation of African-American ... ...

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... of the U.S. In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke published The New Negro, an anthology that contained the works of some of the writers of the period: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston. In Harlem, "Negro life is seizing upon its first chances for group expression and self-determination," Locke wrote in the introduction. Instead of using more direct ... ...

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... Scholar, and the editor of the New Negro. Others included biracial novelist and poet Jean Toomer, Poets Langston Hughes and Cullen, both leading voices of the period. Novelist and poet Claude Mckay, writer and editor Jessie Fausset, novelist and folk anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, novelist Nella Larson, poet and novelist Arna Bontemps and novelist and editor Wallace Thurman. ("Harlem Renaissance" 2) Countee ... ...

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