Home › Authors › Davis, Charles T. 👤 Davis, Charles T. b. 1918 – d. 1981 · 5 books Biography Professor, literary scholar. Early work was on American poetry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, later work focused on black literature, culture, and history. Books by Davis, Charles T. Black is the color of the cosmos 1982 Richard Wright, a primary bibliography 1982 On being black 1981 Walt Whitman's Poems Walt Whitman's Poems 1955 The slave's narrative