Person Detail: Helene Johnson

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General Information:
Full Name: Helene Johnson
Biography: (1906-1995) Poet. Helene Johnson and her cousin, novelist Dorothy West, moved to Harlem, Manhattan, New York, in 1927. Her literary work appears mostly in the magazines "Opportunity," the "Messenger," the "Saturday Evening Quill," and "Vanity Fair."
Author's Timeline:
1906		(Unknown) County Helen (Helene) Johnson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1906.
1929		(Unknown) County Remember Not (Pub: The Saturday Evening Quill. ISBN: ) Poem.
1929		(Unknown) County Invocation (Pub: The Saturday Evening Quill. ISBN: ) Poem.
1927		(Unknown) County Poem (Pub: Published in "Caroling Dusk" edited by Countee Cullen. ISBN: ) Poem.
1927		New York County Johnson moved to Harlem, Manhattan, New York, in 1927. She attended Columbia University.
1995		New York County Helene Johnson lived in Manhattan, New York and died there in 1995.
1925		(Unknown) County My Race (Pub: Opportunity. ISBN: ) Poem.
1923		(Unknown) County Bottled (Pub: Published in "Negro Poets And Their Poems" edited by Robert T. Kerlin. ISBN: ) Poem.
1926		(Unknown) County The Road (Pub: Opportunity. ISBN: ) Poem.
1923		New York County Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem (Pub: Published in "Negro Poets And Their Poems" edited by Robert T. Kerlin. ISBN: ) Poem.
1934		(Unknown) County Plea Of A Plebeian (Pub: Opportunity. ISBN: ) Poem.
1934		(Unknown) County Monotone (Pub: Opportunity. ISBN: ) Poem.
2000		(Unknown) County This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Pub: Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry, edited by Verner D. Mitchell.
?		Westchester County Johnson worked for Consumers Union in Mount Vernon, New York, for several years.