Countee Cullen
Born May 30, 1903
Most sources say Louisville, Kentucky
Died January 9, 1946
New York, New York
American poet, novelist, and dramatist
Countee Cullen. (The Bettmann Archive/Corbis-...
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Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)
Among the most conservative of the Harlem Renaissance poets, Harvard educated Countee Cullen exploded onto the New York literary scene with the publication of Color (1925) ...
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The American Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was one of the most widely heralded African American poets of the Harlem renaissance, though he was less concerned with social and political problems than were ...
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Born Countee Leroy Porter on 30 May 1903, Countee Cullen was orphaned while still a child and subsequently adopted, though the relationship was never made legal, by Frederick Asbury Cullen. While an a...
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Countee Cullen became a central figure in the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance and in American poetry in general with the publication of his first book, Color (1925), which black and white critics hail...
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If any single writer can be said to represent the New Negro Renaissance, that extraordinary flowering of Afro-American arts centered in Harlem in the 1920s, that writer is almost certainly Countee Cul...
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Biography EssayCountee Cullen became a central figure in the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance and in American poetry in general with the publication of his first book, Color (1925), which black and wh...
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Countee Cullen, an American poet and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance was born Countee LeRoy Porter. This 1920s artistic movement produced the first large body of work in the United States ...
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Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)
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