Lineage Lists

Adult Literary Fiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1930s

  1. Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
  2. Black No More by George Schulyer
  3. One Way to Heaven by Countee Cullen
  4. Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
  5. Their Eyes Were Watching God Novel by Zora Neale Hurston
  6. Ollie Miss by George Wylie Henderson
  7. Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps
  8. Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright
  9. Drums at Dusk by Arna Bontemps
  10. O Canaan! by Waters Edward Turpin
  11. These Low Grounds by Waters Edward Turpin
  12. The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life by Jessie Redmon Fauset
  13. Comedy: American Style by Jessie Redmon Fauset
  14. Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
  15. Passing by Nella Larsen
  16. Greater Need Below by O’Wendell Shaw
  17. Slaves Today; A Story of Liberia by George S. Schuyler
  18. Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free A.D. 1933–1940 by George S. Schuyler