Wallace Thurman

Wallace Thurman was an American novelist and screenwriter active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and published several short lived newspapers and literary journals. He is best known for his first novel, The Blacker the Berry, which appeared in 1929 and looks at prejudice over skin tone within the Black community. Negro Life in New York's Harlem is an essay on the neighborhood where he lived. He died at thirty two.