Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs, explores a conspicuously overlooked topic: Hemingways wide-ranging influence on writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present day. An observable whos who of black writers-Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Chester Himes, Alex la Guma, Derek Walcott, Gayl Jones, and more-cite Hemingway as a vital influence. This inspiration extends from style, Hemingways minimalist art, to themes of isolation and loneliness, the dilemma of the expatriate, and the terrifying experience of living in a time of war. The relationship, nevertheless, was not unilateral, as in the case of Jean Toomers 1923 hybrid, short-story cycle Cane, which influenced Hemingways collage-like 1925 In Our Time.