Richard Bruce Nugent
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1906 - 1987
Occupation
Writer
Description
African American writer, part of the Harlem Renaissance. Sexually out from an early age. His creative involvement included two brush and ink drawings and a short story, 'Smoke, Lilies, and Jade'. This short story was the first literary work on a purely homosexual theme that had been published by a black. One of the founders of the literary magazine Fire!!, whose first and only issue was published in 1926. Close friend of Langston Hughes.
