Wallace Thurman Collection, 1927-1942.

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Wallace Thurman Collection, 1927-1942.

1927-1942

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/960

The Wallace Thurman Collection contains Correspondence, (including letters from Langston Hughes), Writings, primarily versions of Aunt Hagar's Children and the musical play Harlem, written with William Jourdan Rapp, and Personal Papers.

1.25 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8018508

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...

Rapp, William Jourdan, 1895-

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Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934

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Wallace Thurman was a novelist and playwright who found fame before his early death with the novel The Blacker the Berry and the play, "Harlem". A biographical sketch of Thurman written by Harold Jackman, can be found in folder 59 of this collection. From the guide to the Wallace Thurman Collection, 1927-1942, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Wallace Thurman was a novelist and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance. From the description of Wallace Th...