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Person Detail: Jean Toomer
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| Full Name: Jean Toomer | ||
| Biography: (1894-1967) Poet, novelist. "descended from a mixture…Scotch, Welsh, German,…and some dark blood" Jean Toomer wrote "Cane" (1923) a three part novel seen as ground-breaking and the start-off point for the Harlem Renaissance. He lived in New Rochelle and Harlem, New York City at different times in his life. |
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| 1925 |
New York County Toomer lived in Harlem, Manhattan, New York. He began lecturing on Gurdjieff's Methods to the black population of Harlem. |
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| 1906 |
Westchester County Toomer moved to New Rochelle, New York when his mother remarried in 1906. He returned to Washington, District of Columbia after her death in 1909. |
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| 1894 |
(Unknown) County Nathan Pinchback Toomer (Jean Toomer) was born in Washington, District of Columbia in 1894. |
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| 1967 |
(Unknown) County Jean Toomer died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1967. |
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| 1917 |
New York County Although he never took a degree, Toomer studied at both the City College of New York and New York University in Manhattan, New York. |
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| 1923 |
(Unknown) County Cane (Pub: New York: Boni and Liveright. ISBN: ) A novel comprised of poetry, short stories, and drama. |
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| 1931 |
(Unknown) County Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms (Pub: Chicago: Lakeside Press. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1936 |
(Unknown) County The Blue Meridian Poem. |
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| 1929 |
(Unknown) County Problems Of Civilization (Pub: New York: D. Van Nostrand Co. ISBN: ) Written with Ellsworth Huntington, Whiting Williams, and others. |
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| 1947 |
(Unknown) County An Interpretation Of Friends Worship (Pub: Philadelphia: Committee On Religious Education Of Friends General Conference. ISBN: ) |
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| 1949 |
(Unknown) County The Flavor Of Man (Pub: Philadelphia: Young Friends Movement Of The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. ISBN: ) |
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| 1980 |
(Unknown) County The Collected Poems Of Jean Toomer Poetry. |
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