Bibliography
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- The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (novel), Sherman, French, 1912, Arden Library, 1978, reprinted, Dover, 1995.
- (Translator) Fernando Periquet, Goyescas; or, The Rival Lovers (opera libretto), G. Schirmer, 1915.
- Fifty Years and Other Poems, Cornhill, 1917, AMS Press, 1975.
- (Editor) The Book of American Negro Poetry, Harcourt, 1922, revised edition (publisher unknown), 1969.
- (Editor) The Book of American Negro Spirituals, Viking, 1925.
- (Editor) The Second Book of Negro Spirituals Viking, 1926.
- God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (poetry), illustrations by Aaron Douglas, Viking, 1927, Penguin, 1976.
- Black Manhattan (nonfiction), Knopf, 1930, Arno, 1968.
- Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson, Viking, 1933, Da Capo, 1973.
- Negro Americans, What Now? (nonfiction), Viking, 1934, Da Capo, 1973.
- Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems, Viking, 1935, AMS Press, 1974.
- The Great Awakening, Revell, 1938.
- (Editor) The Books of American Negro Spirituals (contains The Book of American Negro Spirituals and The Second Book of Negro Spirituals), Viking, 1940, reprinted, 1964.
- The Creation (poetry), illustrated by James Ransome, Holiday House, 1994.
- The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, edited by Sondra K. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing (songs), illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Scholastic, 1995.
Also author of Selected Poems, 1936. Contributor of articles and poems to numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Defender, Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL), New York Age, New York Times, Pittsburgh Courier, Savannah Tribune, Century, Crisis, Nation, Independent, Harper's, Bookman, Forum, and Scholastic. Poetry represented in many anthologies; songs published by Joseph W. Stern & Co., Edward B. Marks Music Corp., and others; author of numerous pamphlets on current events published by the NAACP, Nation, Century, and others.
