Marita Bonner Occomy was one of the most versatile twentieth-century black writers. Her contributions to the Crisis and Opportunity during the two decades after her 1922 graduation from Radcliffe College include essays, reviews, dramas, short stories, and multipart fictional narratives. She lived for substantial periods in three urban centers: Boston, where she was born and educated, Washington, D.C., where she worked for eight years, and Chicago. In Washington she was a member of the S Street salon of black writers formed by the poet and playwright Georgia Douglas Johnson, who became a close friend. Later, Marita Bonner Occomy's innovative fiction of black Chicago set a model for other writers, including Richard Wright, to follow. Occomy's published pieces in the Crisis and Opportunity were closely studied by aspiring young writers of her period because she so frequently captured the literary prizes offered by both magazines; in the 1933 Opportunity fiction...