Jean Toomer
(1894 - 1967)Jean Toomer, whose full name was Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer, was born in Washington, D.C., the son of educated blacks of Creole stock. Literature was his first love and he regularly contributed avant garde poetry and short stories to such magazines as Dial, Broom, Secession, Double Dealer, and Little Review. After a literary apprenticeship in New York, Toomer taught school in rural Georgia. His experiences there led to the writing of Cane.
Novels
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The wayward and the seeking (1980)
The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer (poems) (1988)
A Jean Toomer Reader (1993)
The Uncollected Works (2003)
The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer (poems) (1988)
A Jean Toomer Reader (1993)
The Uncollected Works (2003)
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Books containing stories by Jean Toomer
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike
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