George Schuyler

George Samuel Schuyler (1895–1977) was an American journalist, satirist, and novelist. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he served in the U.S. Army before embarking on a journalism career in the 1920s, writing for the Pittsburgh Courier and other Black newspapers. His controversial, often contrarian columns made him a prominent, if polarizing, figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His first and most famous novel, Black No More (1931), is a biting science-fiction satire in which a scientific process turns Black people white, exposing the absurdity of racial hierarchies. Schuyler also wrote the nonfiction Slaves Today (1931) and later became a conservative voice, but his literary legacy rests on Black No More, which is now recognized as a pioneering work of Afrofuturism and American satire.