A HARLEM WEDDING - Tiffany L. Warren
William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0063322189
May 2026
Historical Fiction

United States - 1920s to 1940s

This is the story of Yolande Du Bois, an American teacher and the   daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York in what was later called the Harlem Renaissance. For much of her younger life,   Yolande did what her father demanded of her. She was expected to set an example of how a well-bred Black girl behaved, and to marry within her station. But deep inside, and among her friends, Yolande was a free spirit.

In her last year of high school, Yolande met jazz musician Jimmie Lunceford, and immediately fell in love with him. When she went off to college at Fisk University, she kept in contact with Jimmie, but her father had other plans for her. 

Refusing to comply with her father's wishes was not how Yolande was raised. And now, despite loving someone else, she would marry in what would be the social event of the season in Harlem. 

Free spirited still, Yolande would soon come to terms with her not-so-happy marriage, and would look to a future more suitable to her dreams. 

A HARLEM WEDDING was mesmerizing in its authenticity and emotional reality. Yolande was her own person who, while wanting to please her powerful father, was equally powerful in her need to be herself. 

Jani Brooks