Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 – 1966), was a poet and playwright. She was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights, and the salon she hosted at her home in Washington DC helped nurture and sustain contributors — including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Anne Spencer, Richard Bruce Nugent, Alain Locke, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké and Eulalie Spence — to the New Negro Movement, which is better known today as the Harlem Renaissance.