Fire!!

Fire!! was the most artistically ambitious magazine of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most important American magazines of its time. It was edited by Wallace Thurman in association with his contributors, which included Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and artist Aaron Douglas. The magazine received mixed reviews, especially from the older generation of black intellectuals. Thurman had spared no expense to present the new artistic movement in a form worthy of its content. That only a few copies survive is due to the fact that most of them were being stored in a basement where an actual fire broke out. Fire!! folded before a second issue was published.

Fire!! a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists. Edited by Wallace Thurman et al. New York, 1926. PML 187342