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James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

Author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man	683	5	99	3.67	4.00	1.05
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)	156	2	13	4.42	5.00	0.92
The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance	144		12	3.88	4.00	1.02
Writing New York (Original Edition)	178	2	11	3.91	4.00	0.76
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology	149		10	3.60	4.00	0.92
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing	138		8	4.19	4.00	0.61
The Creation	64	4	8	4.44	5.00	0.98
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson	33		4	4.13	4.50	1.02
The Book of American Negro Poetry: Revised Edition	52		4	3.88	3.75	0.89
James Weldon Johnson: Writings	97		3	2.83	3.00	1.84
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Norton Critical Editions)	15		3	4.00	4.00	0.82
Black Manhattan	33	1	3	4.00	4.00	0.82
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)	24		2	3.00	3.00	1.00
Mindhopper (Daw Book Collectors, No. 738)	30		2	3.75	3.75	1.25
Fifty Years and Other Poems	2	1	1	3.50	3.50
Negro American, What Now?	1		1	4.00	4.00
Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)	20		1	3.00	3.00
"I'll make me a world"; James Weldon Johnson's story of the creation	5		1	5.00	5.00
Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems (20th Century Classics)	14		1	4.50	4.50
The Book of American Negro Spirituals. Edited With an Introduction By James Weldon Johnson. Musical Arrangements By J. Rosamond Johnson. Additional Numbers By Lawrence Brown	2
Pieces of a Man (Black Classics)	2
Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.	1
Lift ev''ry voice and sing; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.	1
From "Along This Way" (Short Story)	1
Self-Determining Haiti : Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	1
The Second Book of Negro Spirituals	3
The selected writings of James Weldon Johnson	1
Negro Americans, What Now?	3
The Books of the American Negro Spirituals	24
Daystar and Shadow	23
The Book of American Negro Spirituals	2
Writings	1
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics)	12
God's trombones and poems on various subjects	1

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