This authoritative resource presents the people, places and times that defined an era and documents cultural development among African Americans in 1920s Harlem. Featured are biographies of such Harlem Renaissance notables as W.E.B. DuBois, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes and Bessie Smith.