1913– Author and director Oscar Micheaux publishes his first novel, Conquest: The Story Of A Negro Pioneer, through The Woodruff Press. The novel is published anonymously and is based on his life as a homesteader.

1918– Hope’s Highway by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming is published by Neale Publishing Company

1923– Cane by Jean Toomer is published by Boni and Liveright.

1926-1927– Oscar Micheaux directs and produces The Conjure Woman (1926) and The House Behind the Cedars (1927). These two films are inspired by two novels by Charles Chesnutt.

1927– Knopf  Publishing company republishes The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man with James Weldon Johnson being credited as the author unlike the 1912 version.

1928– The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher is published by Knopf.  

1928– Home to Harlem by Claude McKay is published by Harper and Brothers.

1929– Claude McKay wins Harmon Gold Award for Literature for his novel Home to Harlem.

1929– Passing by Nella Larsen is published by Knopf.

1929– The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life by Wallace Thurman is published by the Macaulay Company

1930– Not Without Laughter, the only novel written by Langston Hughes, is published by Knopf.

1930– Nella Larsen becomes the first black person to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She uses the funds to travel Europe to write a novel.

1931– Black No More by George Schuyler is published by The Macauley Company

1932– One Way To Heaven by Countee Cullen is published by Harpers.

1937– Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is published by J.B. Lippincott.