biography
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Toomer, Jean (Eugene Nathan)
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| lived:
| (1894–1967)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He studied at the University of Wisconsin (1914) and City College, NY (1917), and worked briefly as a superintendent of a black rural school in Georgia (1921). He studied with a mystic in France (1924), lived in Harlem (1925) and Chicago (1926–33), then married and settled in Pennsylvania (1934). An important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, he is best known for Cane (1923), a work combining poetry, fiction, and drama. |
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