Jean Toomer
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 56 years ago |
| Date of birth | December 26,1894 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Washington |
| D.C. | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 30,1967 |
| Died | Doylestown |
| Pennsylvania | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Marjorie Content |
| Margery Latimer | |
| Parents | Nathan Toomer |
| Nina Pinchback | |
| Books | Cane |
| Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank | |
| The collected poems of Jean Toomer | |
| Essentials | |
| Education | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| The City College of New York | |
| M Street High School | |
| Dunbar High School | |
| Children | 1 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 419980 |
Jean Toomer Life story
Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane, which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
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