Georgia Douglas Johnson
Born: September 10, 1880 (Atlanta, GA)
Died: May 15, 1966 (Washington, D.C.)
Biography
Georgia Douglas Johnson was an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson’s four volumes of poetry, The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962), established her as one of the most accomplished African American woman poets of the literary movement.
Johnson accepted an honorary doctorate in literature from Atlanta University in 1965, and in 2010 she was inducted posthumously into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in his foreword to her poetry volume Bronze, “Her word is simple…. It is singularly sincere and true, and as a revelation of the soul struggle of the women of a race it is invaluable.”
