The Last Leaf of Harlem: Selected and Newly Discovered Fiction by the Author of the Wedding

by Dorothy West

A literary event--selected and previously uncollected fiction by the woman who was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance. When Dorothy West died in 1998, she was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, a contemporary of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. Popular history holds that between the publication of her two novels ( The Living is Easy in 1948 and The Wedding in 1995), Dorothy West fell silent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312261489
• ISBN13: 9780312261481
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Very well written.

A joy to read, and ponder. Dorothy West should be on every list.