Other leading figures included Alain Locke ("The New Negro", 1925), James Weldon Johnson ("Black Manhattan", 1930), Claude McKay ("Home to Harlem", 1928), Langston Hughes ("The Weary Blues", 1926), Zora Neale Hurston ("Jonah's Gourd Vine", 1934), Wallace Thurman ("Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life", 1929), Jean Toomer ("Cane", 1923) and Arna Bontemps ("Black Thunder", 1935).