Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) 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'' (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles S. Johnson called it "the most astonishingly brilliant beginning of any Negro writer of his generation". He resisted being classified as a "Negro" writer, as he identified as "American". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff. Later in life he took up Quakerism.Toomer continued to write poetry, short stories and essays. His first wife died soon after the birth of their daughter. After he married again in 1934, Toomer moved with his family from New York to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. There, he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University. Provided by Wikipedia
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The wayward and the seeking : a collection of writings by Jean Toomer / Edited with an introd. by Darwin T. Turner. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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The collected poems of Jean Toomer / edited by Robert B. Jones and Margery Toomer Latimer ; with an introduction and textual notes by Robert B. Jones. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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Essentials / Jean Toomer ; edited by Rudolph P. Byrd. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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A Jean Toomer reader : selected unpublished writings / edited by Frederik L. Rusch. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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Jean Toomer : selected essays and literary criticism / edited, with an introduction, by Robert B. Jones. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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Cane / Jean Toomer ; with an introduction by Darwin T. Turner. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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A drama of the southwest : the critical edition of a forgotten play / Jean Toomer ; edited by Carolyn J. Dekker. by Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
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Harlem Renaissance : five novels of the 1920s / Rafia Zafar, editor.
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Kuntu drama : plays of the African continuum / collected and with an introd. by Paul Carter Harrison ; pref. by Oliver Jackson. by Harrison, Paul Carter, 1936-2021
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African-American classics / edited by Tom Pomplun and Lance Tooks.
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Plays of Negro life : a source-book of native American drama / Selected and edited by Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory. Decorations and illus. by Aaron Douglas. by Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
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Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974 / James V. Hatch, editor. Ted Shine, consultant. by Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020
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