Edythe Mae Gordon

Edythe Mae Gordon ( 1897 – 1980) was an African-American writer of short stories and poetry during the era of the Harlem Renaissance. Gordon primarily published her work in the Quill Club, a Boston-based publication founded by her husband Eugene Gordon and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Helene Johnson and Dorothy West. The most well known example of her work was published after her death, Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon, as part of a project to support and reintroduce African-American women writers between 1910 and 1940, written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jennifer Burton, and Lorraine Elena Roses.

Personal life Edythe Mae Chapman was born in Washington, D.C., likely June 4 sometime in the period 1895–1900; the date is uncertain because the existing documents differ on her birth year. a public school, and graduated in 1916. On January 10, 1916, she married Eugene Gordon, then a student at Howard University and later a writer for the Boston Post and eventual founder of the Saturday Night Quill Club and the publication, Saturday Evening Quill. By 1919 they had moved to Boston but had ten separate addresses across ten years of attending college and publishing;

After Edythe divorced Eugene, she effectively disappears from the literary world. The last public records of her life were a 1938 transcript to Boston University, a note with two poems published in Negro Voices in 1938, and her 1942 petition for divorce from Probate and Family Court. Her disappearance and its relation to her divorce are unknown.