ABSTRACT
This account of the special problems faced by the Negro author in getting his work before the general reading public is condensed from a paper delivered by Mr. Redding at Pembroke College, Providence, for the Friends of the Library of Brown University. Mr. Redding is associate professor of English at Hampton Institute, where he teaches literature and creative writing. At present he is on leave as a Guggenheim Fellow and is working on a novel. He will write “They Came in Chains” for Lippincott’s People of America series.
