Georgia Douglas Johnson was a prolific poet and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia and went to Atlanta University, Howard University, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She and her husband, the lawyer and politician Henry Johnson, had two sons. They also enjoyed a higher social status when Henry Johnson became Recorder of Deeds under President William Taft. Even though she lived in Washington D. C. during the Harlem Renaissance, she was well-connected to New York writers and often hosted writer friends including Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Jessie Redmon Fauset. Johnson, like many other poets during that time period, published in magazines such as The Crisis. She published three poetry collections from 1918-1928, and a fourth later in life. More than 200 poems are in her collections alone.