biography
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Cullen, Countée
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née Countée LeRoy Porter
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| lived:
| (1903–46)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in New York City, USA. Raised by foster parents, he studied at New York University (1925 BA) and Harvard (1926 MA). Having achieved some recognition for his poetry while still a student, as an African-American he was regarded as contributing to the so-called Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, but his particular style, as seen in such works as Color (1925) and Copper Sun (1927), was more derived from European traditions than from African-American idioms and has not survived his era. Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1928, he spent most of the next six years in Paris. On returning to New York City he taught at a junior high school (1934–46) and also edited a magazine, Opportunity. In addition to his poetry, he wrote a novel, One Way to Heaven (1932),and stories for children. |
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