Georgia Douglas Johnson Article Index for
Georgia
Website Links For
Georgia
 

Information About

Georgia Douglas Johnson




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:

  • The Heart of a Woman (1918)

  • Bronze (1922)

  • An Autumn Love Cycle (1928)

  • Share My World (1962)


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

  • Shockley, Ann Allen, ''Afro-American Women Writers 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide'', New Haven, Connecticut: Meridian Books, 1989. ISBN 0452009812




EXTERNAL LINKS