George Wylie Henderson Author

George Wylie Henderson (1904-65), born in Alabama, worked in the printing trade and began writing fiction shortly after graduating from the Tuskegee Institute. He migrated to Harlem with his wife in the late 1920s, and published his first story in the New York Daily News in 1932. David G. Nicholls is the Director of Book Publications for the Modern Language Association, and holds a Ph.D in Literature from the University of Chicago. He is author of Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America. He lives in Hoboken, N.J.