Henry Dumas
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 56 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 20,1934 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Sweet Home |
| Arkansas | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | May 23,1968 |
| Died | Manhattan |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Loretta Ponton |
| Literary movement | Black Arts Movement |
| Job | Teacher |
| Poet | |
| Education | The City College of New York |
| Rutgers University | |
| Books | Rope of wind and other stories |
| Goodbye, Sweetwater | |
| Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas | |
| Play ebony: play ivory | |
| Jonoah and the green stone | |
| Echo tree | |
| Literari movement | Black Aesthetic |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1363628 |
Henry Dumas Life story
Henry Dumas was an African-American writer and poet. He has been called "an absolute genius" by Toni Morrison, who as a commissioning editor at Random House published posthumous collections both of his poetry, Play Ebony, Play Ivory, and his short stories, Ark of Bones, in 1974.
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