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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue" ` from Wikipedia
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. ~ from Wikipedia
"The inside light" : new critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston by 
Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 by 
The Cambridge introduction to Zora Neale Hurston by 
James Baldwin ; a collection of critical essays by 
Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance by 
Langston Hughes : a documentary volume by 
Zora Neale Hurston : a life in letters by 
The correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois. Vol. 1, Selections, 1877-1934 [electronic resource] by 
Invisible darkness [electronic resource] : Jean Toomer & Nella Larsen by 
Letters from Langston : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and beyond by 
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A list of some of the other notable writers during this time period.
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Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His first book Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many his most significant. Toomer was born Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer in Washington, D.C. His father was a prosperous farmer, originally born into slavery in Hancock County, Georgia. His mother, Nina Pinchback, was of mixed ethnic descent.
As a child in Washington, Toomer attended all-black schools. When his mother re-married and they moved to suburban New Rochelle, New York, he attended an all-white school. After his mother's death, Toomer returned to Washington to live with his Pinchback grandparents. He graduated from the M Street School, an academic black high school. By his early adult years, Toomer resisted racial classifications and wanted to be identified only as an American.
Toomer wrote a small amount of fiction and published essays in Quaker publications during this time, but devoted most of his time to serving on Quaker committees and working with high school students. ~ from Wikipedia
