Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

About The Author

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930) was a pioneering African-American novelist, playwright and journalist, whose work, such as the romance novel Contending Forces, often explored race and social issues. As an editor and director of The Colored American Magazine, she wielded significant literary and cultural influence.

Series by the Author

Books by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self
By Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Foreword by Sandra M. Grayson / Introduction by Patty Nicole Johnson
A rip-roaring lost worlds thriller written in the early 1900s by a pioneering black writer of black fiction. The story of Reuel is fuelled by love, betrayal and a heavy undertow of the supernatural; an impulsive medical student, he travels from Boston to Ethiopia, discovers a hidden city, ancient...
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