Playwright Charles Smith was inspired to write "Knock Me A Kiss" after learning of the famously short marriage of Yolande Du Bois to Countee Cullen, a poet and rising star of the Harlem Renaissance, in April 1928. Cullen was a protege of her father's who saw their union as a political and cultural coup.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM on February 4, 2014