Bronze: A Book of Verse
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- ISBN 9781513209241
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Mint Editions
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966) was an African American poet and playwright. Born in Atlanta she excelled in school from a young age learning to read write and play violin. She graduated from Atlanta Universitys Normal School in 1896 before working briefly as a teacher Marietta Georgia. In 1902 having decided to become a professional musician she enrolled at Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied music theory and learned the art of composition. She later returned to Atlanta marrying prominent lawyer and Republican party member Henry Lincoln Johnson with whom she had two sons. After moving to Washington D.C. in 1910 she embarked on a literary career against her husbands wishes submitting poems to journals around the country. She published her first collection The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) to modest acclaim and continued to grow her reputation with poems in The Crisis the journal of the NAACP edited by W.E.B. Du Bois. Following her husbands death in 1925 she supported herself and her sons with various jobs and maintained a staggering output of poems plays short stories and newspaper columns. She also began hosting prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance at her home which she called the S Street Salon providing a meeting place for such legendary artists and intellectuals as Langston Hughes Jean Toomer Alain Locke and Eulalie Spence. She is recognized today as a prominent anti-lynching activist a pioneering poet and one of the first African American woman playwrights.
