The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings TC_Bestseller The First American is a

The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure

In this haunting novel

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Jennifer Egan

The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings TC_Bestseller The First American is aPulitzer Prize winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black