Lineage Lists

Adult Literary Fiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1940s

  1. Black Ivory by Norman Collins
  2. Native Son by Richard Wright
  3. Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright
  4. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  5. Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
  6. For My People by Margaret Walker
  7. The Case of Mrs Wingate by Oscar Micheaux
  8. If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester B. Himes
  9. The Street by Ann Petry
  10. The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
  11. Last of the Conquerors by William Gardner Smith
  12. Jule: A novel by George Wylie Henderson
  13. No Day of Triumph by J. Saunders Redding