Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance by Steven C. Tracy

Author:Steven C. Tracy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Himes, Chester. “Lonely Crusade.” Chicago Daily Sun-Times, October 2, 1947, 33.

2. “Stand Up and Be Counted.” Time (June 7, 1963): 11.

3. “Negro Art in Chicago.” Opportunity 18, 1 (January 1940): 19–22, 28–31.

4. See the discussion in Adam Meyer, “The Need for Cross-Ethnic Studies,” MELUS 16, 4 (Winter 1989–Winter 1990): 19–39.

5. Kunitz, Stanley J., ed. “Willard Motley.” In Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary, First Supplement. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1955, 693–94.

6. In 1993 I visited the Motley collections at Northern Illinois University and University of Wisconsin, as well as conducted interviews with Frederica Motley (Chicago), Archibald Motley Jr. (Chicago), Ted Pierce (Madison, Wisconsin), Frank Fried (Berkeley, by phone), Alexander Saxton (Lone Pine, California, by phone), and Milton Zaslow (Laguna Beach, by phone). In 2003 I conducted a phone interview with Zev Braun (Los Angeles). My research in Chicago and Madison was carried out with the assistance of Patrick Quinn of Northwestern University Archives, to whom I am much indebted.

For this essay, I have combined new information with the standard sources that are cited in footnotes and the bibliography of additional readings. The most widely-available work on Motley is Robert F. Fleming’s Willard Motley (Boston: Twayne, 1978).

7. See Motley’s memoir of his experiences in the Chicago Defender (National Edition): “First Bud Billiken Tells about Himself after 15 Years,” January 20, 1940, 19; January 27, 1940, 19; February 3, 1940, 19; February 17, 1940, 19.

8. Rayson, Ann. “Prototypes of Nick Romano of Knock on Any Door.” Negro American Literature Forum 8 (Fall 1974): 248–51.

9. “Hull-House Neighborhood,” Hull-House Magazine 1, 1 (November 1939): 5–7; “Pavement Portraits,” Hull-House Magazine 1, 2 (December 1939): 2–6; “Handfuls,” Hull-House Magazine 1, 3 (January 1940): 9–11.

10. The manuscript can be found in the Motley collection at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb.

11. The manuscript can be found in the Motley papers at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb.

12. Weyant, Nancy Jill. “The Craft of Willard Motley’s Fiction.” Dissertation, Northern Illinois University, 1975.

13. This manuscript can be found in the Motley papers at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

14. See Margaret B. Hexter, “From Altar-Boy to Killer,” Saturday Review of Literature 30 (May 24, 1947): 13; and Charles Lee, “Disciple of Dreiser,” New York Times Book Review, May 4, 1947, 3.

15. Motley, Willard. Knock on Any Door. New York and London: Appleton-Century, 1947, 503.

16. Ibid., 60.

17. Ibid., 88.

18. Ibid., 185.

19. Ibid., 189.

20. See Sidney Lens, Unrepentant Radical: An American Activist’s Account of Five Turbulent Decades. Boston: Beacon, 1980, 150–55.

21. Cain, James M. “Into the Lower Depths.” New York Times Book Review, November 18, 1951, 4, 34.

22. Swados, Harvey. “Angry Novel.” Nation 173 (December 29, 1951): 572.

23. Kingery, Robert E. Review of We Fished All Night. Library Journal 76 (December 1, 1951): 2006.

24. Anonymous. “The ’30s Revisited.” Time 58 (November 26, 1951): 120, 122.

25. Anonymous. “The Wire-Recorder Ear.” Time 72 (August 11, 1958): 74.

26. Anonymous. Review of Let No Man Write My Epitaph. New Yorker 34 (August 23, 1958): 92.

27. Algren, Nelson. “Epitaph Writ in Syrup.” Nation 187 (August 16, 1958): 79.

28. This analysis is promoted in Robert A.

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