HENDERSON, GEORGE WYLIE, 1904-1965

Biography:

Printer; fiction writer. Born– 1904, Warrior Stand, Macon County.  Parents– Rev. George W. Henderson and Ella May Gresham Henderson. Married twice; second wife Blanche.  Children–one (first marriage).  Education– Tuskegee Institute; learned printing trade. Moved to New York and worked as a linotype operator at the New York Daily News. Contributed short stories to the Daily News and to Redbook.

Source:

American Authors and Books; Selected Black American Authors; Robert A. Bone’s Negro Novel in America. New Haven, Conn.; Yale University Press, 1958.

Publication(s):

Harlem Calling; The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson.  Madison; University of Michigan Press, 2006.

Jule. New York; Creative Age Press, 1940.

Ollie Miss; a Novel. New York; Frederick A. Stokes, 1935.