WHO'S WHO OF THE CONTRIBUTORS
Locke, Alain: editor and contributor, The New Negro, Negro Youth Speaks, The Negro Spirituals, The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts; born Philadelphia, Pa., September 13, 1886; educated at Philadelphia public schools; Harvard College, A.B., 1907; graduate study, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar from Pennsylvania), 1907-10; University of Berlin, 1910-11; Harvard University, Ph D., 1918; Assistant Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Howard University, Washington, D. C., 1912-25. Author: Race Contacts and Interracial Relations, 1916, and numerous articles on social problems and belles lettres. Editor, Harlem Number, Survey Graphic, March, 1925.
Barnes, Albert C.: Negro Art and America; born Philadelphia, Pa.; educated at Central High School, Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and University of Heidelberg, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1892, art collector and connoisseur, and founder of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pa. Editor of the Journal of the Barnes Foundation, co-editor of Les Arts a Paris, and author of the Art of Painting, Barnes Foundation Press, 1924.
Braithwaite, William Stanley: The Negro in American Literature; born Boston, 1878; educated at public schools of Boston and Newport; poet, journalist, editor, and pioneer anthologist of contemporary American poetry. Author: Lyrics of Life, The House of Falling Leaves, The Poetic Year, The Story of the Great War. Compiler of The Book of Elizabethan Verse, The Book of Georgian Verse, The Book of Restoration Verse. Contributing editor, the Boston Transcript; Spingarn Medallist, 1918.
Fisher, Rudolph: The City, of Refuge and Vestiges; born Washington, D. C., 1897; educated at public schools of New York and Providence, R. I., Brown University, A.B. and A.M., 1920 (Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, and Sigma XI); Howard University Medical School, M.D., 1924. Has published short stories in the Atlantic Monthly, Survey Graphic, and The Crisis. First story prize winner in the Amy Spingarn Prize Contest for 1925.
Toomer, Jean: Carma-Fern, from "Cane"; born Washington, D. C., 1894; educated at public schools and Dunbar High, Washington; after a varied experience of travel, taught four months at Sparta, Ga.; since then has lived in New York. Frequent contributor to The Little Review, Secession, The Double Dealer, Broom, Opportunity, and The Crisis. Author: "Cane," a novel, 1923.
Matheus, John F.: Fog; born Keyser, W. Va.; educated at the public schools, Steubenville, O., Western Reserve University, A.B., 1910, Columbia University, A.M., 1921; teacher of languages, Florida A. & M. College, Tallahassie, 1910-22, since 1922 Professor of Romance Languages, West Virginia Collegiate Institute.
Hurston, Zora Neale: Spunk; born Jacksonville, Fla.; educated at Baltimore, Md., Morgan Preparatory, and Howard University; journalism and writing in New York. Spunk was the second prize story in the 1925 Opportunity Literary Contest.
Walrond, Eric D.: The Palm Porch; born British Guiana, 1898; educated at St. Stephen's Boys' School, Black Rock, Barbadoes, later Canal Zone public schools, and three years, 1913-16, under private tutors in Colon; employed Health Department, Cristobal, and as reporter of the Star and Herald,
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