This surname is also shared by the author of a novel about a ragtime musician who passes as a white man, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
One author with this surname was a Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote collections such as Bronze and An Autumn Love Cycle. Another author of this surname wrote a short story collection narrated by a recovering heroin addict, Jesus' Son, as well as the novels Fiskadoro and Tree of Smoke. This surname is also shared by the author of a novel about a ragtime musician who passes as a white man, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. The most famous author with this surname wrote an imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," as well as a single novel about the titular prince of Abyssinia, Rasselas. For 10 points, name this surname possessed by the author of an early dictionary of the English language, who was famously the subject of a biography by James Boswell.
One author with this surname was a Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote collections such as Bronze and An Autumn Love Cycle.
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