Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self

About Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (18591930) acclaimed African-American novelist and intellectual was raised in Boston Massachusetts and first rose to prominence as a playwright and performer before later turning to journalism and literature. Her use of the romantic novel as a medium by which to explore race and social issues through works such as Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South made her a pioneer of her time. As an editor and director of The Colored American Magazine she wielded significant literary and cultural influence and went on to write stories and articles for a number of other magazines. Patty Nicole Johnson writes sci-fi that envisions a more equitable society. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in New American Legends On the Seawall Midnight & Indigo Constelación and Flame Trees Black Sci-Fi Short Stories. She is also revising her debut novel The Rhythm of Reveries and has been a panellist at FIYAHCON. Visit pattynjohnson.com or Twitter & Instagram at @pattynjohnson. Dr. Sandra M. Grayson (series Foreword) is a tenured Full Professor in the English Department at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her numerous publications include the books Visions of the Third Millennium: Black Science Fiction Novelists Write the Future; Symbolizing the Past: Reading Sankofa Daughters of the Dust and Eves Bayou as Histories; A Literary Revolution: In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance; and Sparks of Resistance Flames of Change: Black Communities and Activism.