Wallace Thurman and the Niggeratti Manor

Abstract

Perhaps best known for his successful 1929 Broadway play Harlem (written in collaboration with William Jourdan Rapp), Wallace Thurman is all but forgotten today. There is some documented evidence that Thurman wrote a number of other plays, none of which were ever produced. He was born in Salt Lake City in 1902, and he died in New York City in 1934, young and destitute. Author of three novels, ...