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Washington D.C. during the last 50 years of her life. She published her first poem in 1916 , when she was thirty-six. She went on to publish the following volumes of poetry:
She was married to Henry Lincoln Johnson, a lawyer and civil employee. They had two sons. Soon after her husband's death in 1925 , Johnson hosted weekly Saturday night open houses for other authors which included Langston Hughes , Jean Toomer , Anne Spencer , Richard Bruce Nugent , Alain Locke , and Jessie Redmon Fauset -all major contributers to the Harlem Renaissance . She was a close friend of the writer Angelina Weld Grimke . REFERENCE
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