Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her novel Passing first appeared in 1929.
Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jean Toomer, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Harriet Jacobs & William Still
