By: Shaquille Williams. Countee Cullen was born March 30 1903-1946 January 9 th. Born in either New...
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A Poet, anthologist, novelist, translator, children’s writer, and a play writer. Was a huge voice of the Harlem Renassance.
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By: Shaquille Williams
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen was born March 30 1903-1946 January 9th.
Born in either New York, Baltimore or Lexington, Kentucky.
Who
A Poet, anthologist, novelist, translator, children’s writer, and a play writer.
Was a huge voice of the Harlem Renassance.
What
Harlem, New YorkDe Witt Clinton High SchoolNew York University (NYU)
Where
At NYU he wrote most of his poems for his first 3 novels.
Graduated from college in 1923 from NYUSoon After transferred to Harvard to get his
masters degree
When
Counte e Cuullen was the author of a very famous book “Color” released in 1925 a book of poetry that established itself as a expression of the times.
He didn’t gain fame until many years after he died.
How
People still to this day study what he use to talk about in his poems because he was talking about what was going on during the segregation times.
The poems he wrote are inspirational to everyone then and now.
Why
Was adopted in 1918 by reverned Fredrick A. and Carolyn Belle Cullen.
Went to Harvard University CollegeNo one really knows where he was born
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