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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946

LC control no.n 50019600
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3505.U287
Personal name headingCullen, Countee, 1903-1946
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Variant(s)Carter, James S., 1903-1946
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1903-05-30
Death date1946-01-09
Place of birthNew Orleans (La.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityPoetry
AffiliationNew York Public Library. Countee Cullen Branch New York University Harvard University
Profession or occupationAuthors Poets Teachers
Found inAuthor's Color, 1925.
Countee' Cullen's secret revealed by miracle book, c2008: p. vii (real name is James S. Carter) p. 19 (b. in 1903 in New Orleans) p. 33 (d. in 1946) p. 4 of cover (James S. Carter, Jr.)
Wikipedia, Sept. 20, 2013 (Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 - Jan. 9, 1946) was an American poet who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance)
African American National Biography, accessed January 5, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cullen, CounteĢe; dramatist, poet. He was born 30 May 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States; earned his bachelor's degree from New York University (1925); master's degree from Harvard University; universal critical acclaim with first collection of poetry, Color (1925); second volume of poetry, Copper Sun (1927); third volume of poetry, The Ballad of a Brown Girl (1928); only novel ever published, One Way to Heaven (1932); full-time teacher at Frederick Douglass Junior High School (1934-1946); honors include, first prize in the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Contest, sponsored by Poetry Society of America (1925); John Reed Memorial Prize by Poetry magazine (1925); first prize in literature from Harmon Foundation (1927). He died 09 January 1946 in New York, New York, United States)
Associated languageeng