VIRTUAL Hoosier Authors Book Club “Joy Goddess”

Join A’Lelia for a virtual conversation about Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance with members of the Hoosier Authors Club

From the Hoosier Authors Book Club website: Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker was a dazzling cultural icon whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem cultural scene. After inheriting her mother’s pioneering hair care business, A’Lelia became America’s first high-profile Black heiress and a patron of the arts. Joy Goddess takes readers inside her New York homes, where she hosted luminaries including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, and W.E.B. Du Bois—figures who shaped African American history and culture during the Roaring Twenties.