Infants of the Spring

The second novel by a lading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Infants of the Spring is one of the most potent satires of that era and a retort to the idealized vision of Harlem's artistic community between WW1 and the Depression.

The story centers on Niggeratti Manor, fashioned after the rooming house in which Wallace Thurman once live with other black artists and writers. The protagonist, talented and ambitious novelist Raymond Taylor, has difficulty producing serious work in the decadent ...