The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
🏆 Joint winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
🏆 Winner of the 2018 National Book Award
A definitive biography of the man best known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly described it as “a poignant portrait of a formidable yet flawed genius who navigated the cultural boundaries and barriers of his time while nurturing an enduring African-American intellectual movement.”
