Books By James Weldon Johnson, Gregory Pardlo - Author

James Weldon Johnson (Author) James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor and ethnomusicologist, and co-author of the hymn 'Lift Every Voice and Sing', which is informally known as the Black national anthem in the USA. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta and Columbia Universities and was the first Black lawyer admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and professor of creative literature at Fisk University. His other books include an autobiography, Along This Way, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Gregory Pardlo (Introducer) Gregory Pardlo is the author of Air Traffic and of Digest, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Pardlo's poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation and The New York Times, among others. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarter