Lineage Lists

Adult Literary Fiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1950s

  1. The Hit by Julian Mayfield
  2. The Long Night by Julian Mayfield
  3. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  4. Stranger and Alone by J. Saunders Redding
  5. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
  6. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
  7. The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes
  8. Simple Stakes a Claim by Langston Hughes
  9. Tambourines to Glory by Langston Hughes
  10. Like One of The Family by Alice Childress
  11. We Fished All Night by Willard Motley
  12. Let No Man Write My Epitaph by Willard Motley
  13. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paula Marshall
  14. Third Ward Newark by Curtis Lucas
  15. The Rootless by Waters Edward Turpin
  16. The Outsider by Richard Wright
  17. Lover Man by Alston Anderson
  18. Laughing to Keep from Crying by Langston Hughes
  19. The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: And Other Stories by Wendell Howard
  20. Pyrrhic Victory: A Collection of Short Stories by John Wesley Grove
  21. Beetlecreek by William Demby