Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders).

No Day of Triumph. With an introduction by Richard Wright.

First edition. New York ; London, Harper & brothers, 1942. 23 cm. 342 pages. Original hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. There’s noticeable rubbing of and discolouration to the spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

J. Saunders Redding was an African American author and educator.
Born October 13, 1906 in Wilmington, Delaware, Redding wrote such books as To Make a Poet Black (1939), an autobiography, No Day of Triumph (1944), Stranger and Alone (1950), They Came in Chains (1950), An American in India (1954), and Cavalcade (1970), an African American literature anthology he edited with A. P. Davis.
In 1970, Redding became the first African American professor at Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences and then retired in 1975. Redding died on March 5, 1988 in Ithaca, New York at age 81. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: African American Literature · American Literature · American Literature – Rare · Erik Haugaard Collection
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 44757AB

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