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Jean Toomer
Novelist, Author
1894 – 1967
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Who was Jean Toomer?
Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His first book Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many his most significant.
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- Born
- Dec 26, 1894
Washington, D.C. - Spouses
- Marjorie Content
(1934 - )
- Marjorie Content
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Dunbar High School
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Died
- Mar 30, 1967
Doylestown
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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