 The book was a popular success, introducing the mass audience to aspects of black culture.It received a flattering notice in Billy Rose's syndicated column  in October of that year and in 1947 Wolfe was hired as ghost writer for Billy Rose’s syndicated column.Wolfe worked on a further study of "negro" culture in America, which was never published, but excerpts were published in American magazines in 1949 and 1950, translated for Jean-Paul Sartre’s Les Temps modernes and quoted by Frantz Fanon .