Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930), an African-American journalist and editor of Boston's The Colored American Magazine, was the author of four novels: Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900), Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Cast Prejudice (1901–1902), Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (1902–1903), and Of One Blood (1903). Her work illuminated African history, racist injustice, and women's liberation, earning her a reputation as a key public intellectual of her time.