# The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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- Authors: [James Weldon Johnson](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-weldon-johnson)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-402-0
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1990-02-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine...