The James Weldon Johnson Page

( 1871-1938 )

Major Works
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ( 1912 ). Novel. Reprint by Penguin, 1990, edited and with an introduction by William L. Andrews.
Fifty Years and Other Poems ( 1917 ). Reprinted by AMS, 1975. Two Poems On Line from Poet's Corner.
The Book of American Negro Poetry ( 1922, Revised, 1931 ). Reprinted by Harcourt Brace, 1969.
The Book of American Negro Spirituals ( 1925 ). Collaboration with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson.
"The Making of Harlem". Johnson's essay from the Survey Graphic Harlem Number, March, 1925. Also appeared in Locke's The New Negro the same year.
The Second Book of American Negro Spirituals ( 1926 ). The two volumes of spirituals are combined as The Books of American Negro Spirituals. Viking, 1969. Reprint, Da Capo.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse ( 1927 ). Reprinted by Penguin, 1976.
Black Manhattan ( 1930 ).
Along This Way ( 1933 ). Reprinted by Da Capo, 1973.
Saint Peter Relates an Incident ( 1934 ). Reprinted by Penguin, 1993.
Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson Two volumes: Vol I, The New Age Editorials, 1914-1823; Vol II, Social, Political, and Literary Essays. Edited by Sondra Kathryn Wilson. Oxford , 1995.

About Johnson
Robert E. Fleming, James Weldon Johnson. Twayne, 1987.
PAL JWJ Page

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