Meet Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, a pioneering Black novelist and journalist of the early 1900s. A historical marker at 53 Clifton St., North Cambridge, marks the former home of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, the most prominent Black female writer in America at the turn of the 20th century. A novelist, journalist and playwright, Hopkins served from 1900 to 1904 as editor of the Colored American Magazine, a Boston-based monthly and America’s first Black literary periodical. In her work, Hopkins tackled issues of race relations, social history and the role of women. “She was really fundamental to the continued development of Black literature after the Civil War,” said Alisha Knight, an associate professor at Washington College, in a 2019 interview. During the years it was produced, the Colored American Magazine had the largest circulation of any publication aimed at a Black American readership. Hopkins served variously as the magazine’s literary editor, editor-in-chief and writer. “The reach of that publication across the country was really ahead of its time,” Knight said. The 88-page March 1903 issue, for example, included advertisements from businesses as far afield as Richmond, Virginia,. and East Saint Louis, Illinois.