Jessie Redmon Fauset published Plum Bun in 1928, a novel in which the African-American protagonist, Angela Murray, tries to leverage her light skin tone to gain social advantage, but she discovers a deeper need for honesty than for societal acceptance.
Boris Vian's 1946 pulp fiction novel, J'irais cracher sur vos tombes, describes the story of Lee Anderson, a White passing African American man who infiltrates a White community by charm and seduction in order to take violent revenge for the lynching of his Emmett Till-like little brother.