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Alabama Voices from the
Harlem Renaissance
 

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

  • Poet and novelist
  • Student at Tuskegee Institute (University) for a short period

    • William Christopher (W. C.) Handy, "Father of the Blues" (1873-1958)

  • Native of Florence, Alabama
  • Musician
  • Writer of blues lyrics

    • George Wylie Henderson (1904- ?)

  • Native of Tuskegee/Macon County
  • Novelist

    • Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)

  • Fiction writer, critic
  • Student at Tuskegee Institute (University) 1933-1936
  • Alabama setting in novel and short story

    • Zora Neale Hurston (1891 or 1901-1960)

  • Native of Notasulga, Alabama (according to some sources)
  • Folklorist, fiction writer
  • Field expeditions collecting folklore in Alabama

    • Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

  • Poet, fiction writer
  • Visits to Alabama
  • Poems about Alabama

    • Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

  • Native of Birmingham, Alabama
  • Poet, novelist, biographer
  • Alabama setting in novel, Jubilee

    • Ellen Tarry (1906- )

  • Native of Birmingham, Alabama
  • Writer of books for young people, autobiographer, journalist
  • Alabama significant in autobiography, The Third Door

    • John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998)

  • Native of Union Springs, Alabama
  • Historian, fiction writer

    • Albert Murray (1916- )

  • Native of Nokomis, Alabama (Mobile)
  • Novelist, critic
  • Fiction set in Mobile and Tuskegee, memoirs include Mobile and Tuskegee