Eldred Kurtz Means (March 11, 1878 – February 19, 1957) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, famed public speaker, and author. A white man, he wrote fictional stories about African/African American characters who lived in an area of Louisiana which he named Tickfall. He described the characters in the most grotesque, comical and sensational terms. His magazine stories were compiled into books. He was a constant and prolific contributor to Frank A. Munsey's pulp magazines such as All-Story Weekly, Argosy and its predecessors. His use of black stereotypes, minstrel show motifs, Jim Crow characters, fantastical mimicry and impressionism of Negro dialect made him a popular author with a niche of white audiences; but the implicit racist message has not aged well. (From Wikipedia)
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Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not, It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That His Book Needs No Title (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918), illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Further E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not, It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That This Third Book, Like the First and Second, Needs No Title (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1921), illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: More E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not, It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That This Second Book, Like the First, Needs No Title (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: The Ten-Foot Chain: or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? (New York: Reynolds Pub. Co., 1920), also by Achmed Abdullah, Max Brand, and Perley Poore Sheehan, illust. by Herbert Morton Stoops
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Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Black fortune (Brentano's, 1931) (page images at HathiTrust)- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: E. K. Means. Is this a title? It is not. It is the name of a writer of Negro stories, who has made himself so completely the writer of Negro stories that his book needs no title. (Putnam, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: E.K. Means. Is this a title? It is not. It is the name of a writer of negro stories, who has made himself so completely the writer of negro stories that his book needs no title. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Further E. K. Means. Is this a Title? It is not. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Further E. K. Means. Is this a title? It is not. It is the name of a writer of Negro stories, who has made himself so completely the writer of Negro stories that this third book, like the first and second, needs no title. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Further E. K. Means. Is this a title? It is not. It is the name of a writer of Negro stories, who has made himself so completely the writer of Negro stories that this third book, like the first and second, needs no title. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: More E. K. Means. Is this a title? It is not. It is the name of a writer of Negro stories, who has made himself so completely the writer of Negro stories that this second book, like the first, needs no title (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Negro stories. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), also by E. W. Kemble, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: Negro stories. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), also by E. W. Kemble, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
- Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz), 1878-1957: The ten foot chain; or, Can love survive the shackles? A unique symposium (Reynolds publising company, inc., 1920), also by Achmed Abdullah, Perley Poore Sheehan, and Max Brand (page images at HathiTrust)
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