The collection also contains the papers of Richard Wright and Jean Toomer, as well as small groups of manuscripts or correspondence of such writers as Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Wallace Thurman.Representative manuscripts suggest the richness of the collection: Richard Wright's Native Son; Jean Toomer's Cane; Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching Go