Robert Adamson Bone (1924 – November 25, 2007)[1] was a scholar of African-American literature and a professor of English at Columbia University.
He was National Secretary of the Young People's Socialist League from 1946 to 1947, and then from 1947 to 1948 he worked in the automotive industry in Flint, Michigan.
[2] Bone's book The Negro Novel in America, his Yale dissertation, was published in two editions in 1958 and 1965, and translated into Japanese.
He discusses in detail many novels from each period, reserving particular praise for Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952).
Courage and published as The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950 (Rutgers University Press, 2011).