1902
Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright (died 1934)
Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright (died 1934)
Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright (died 1934)
Wallace Thurman
American novelist and screenwriter (1902–1934)
- Born
- 1902
Wallace Henry Thurman was an American novelist and screenwriter active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is best known for his first novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929), which explores discrimination based on skin tone within the black community, with lighter skin being more highly valued.