The Cotillion

Name: The Cotillion
Author: John Killens

by John Killens

Satirical novel of class ambition and pretension in black middle-class Harlem society

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John Killens

John Oliver Killens was a major voice of African American protest fiction whose novels dramatized Black resistance from slavery through World War II. He cofounded the Harlem Writers Guild, which nurtured a generation of Black writers.

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