Marita Bonner (1899–1971) was a writer, essayist, and playwright who contributed frequently to The Crisis and Opportunity. An important literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance era, she is remembered today as a pioneering advocate for intersectionality — she described black women as an oppressed “group within a group” — and as a documentarian of multicultural urban life. Her The Purple Flower — A Play (1928) is the first known experimental work by an American woman of color.