Good Bull Is Half the Herd (1971), novel A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man: The Adventures of John Henry (1975), novel The Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin (1989), novel The Minister Primarily (2021), posthumously published novel Nonfiction Black Man's Burden (1965), essays Great Gittin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey (1972), biography As editor Black Southern Voices: an anthology of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and critical essays (Meridian, 1992) Further reading Adam, William, Afro-American Authors. Houghton Mifflin, 1972 Bloom, Harold, Modern Black American Fiction Writers. Chelsea House Publishers, 1995 Bolden, Tonya, Strong Men Keep Coming: the book of African American men. J. Wiley and Sons, 1999 Gilyard, Keith, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. University of Georgia Press, 2011. . Gilyard, Keith, Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Politics of John Oliver Killens. Wayne State University Press, 2003. References External links "John Oliver Killens (1916–1987)". ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes. Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: John Oliver Killens papers, 1937–1987 Harlem Writers Guild. Official website 1916 births 1987 deaths 20th-century African-American writers 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists African-American male writers African-American novelists American male novelists Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) Novelists from New York (state) Writers from New York City