Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance EraEbony Rising is the first comprehensive, gender balanced collection of short fiction from the greater Harlem Renaissance era (1912 1940). This was a time marked by writing of extraordinary breadth and depth by some of the most famous authors in African American literary history. Among them were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Dorothy West, and Claude McKay. Not surprisingly, these authors have received an unprecedented amount of