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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the cultural front of the New Negro movement heralded by privileged intellectual leaders during the 1920s. It was also a
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sonnet
Genre of 14-line poem of Italian origin introduced to England by English poet Thomas Wyatt in the form used by Italian poet Petrarch and followed by
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
James Langston Hughes was an outstanding African American poet who relentlessly fought against racial segregation and significantly contributed to
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Johnson, James Weldon (1871 - 1938)
James Weldon Johnson was an African American poet, novelist, lyricist, historian, educator, activist, and diplomat. He was the eldest son of James
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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
1905–89, American novelist, poet, and critic, b. Guthrie, Ky., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. 1925; M.A., Univ. of California 1927; B.Litt., Oxford 1930. At
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Baldwin, James Mark, 1861-1934
Born : 1861, Columbia, South Carolina, USA Died : 1934, Paris, France Nat : American Ints : Developmental psychology, educational psychology, history,
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Walcott, Derek
1930–, West Indian dramatist and poet, b. Castries, St. Lucia, grad. Univ. College of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1954. His grandfathers were both
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888 - 1965)
One of the most influential poets and critics of the twentieth century, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) revitalized and, in many important respects,
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Richard Wright was an African American novelist, essayist, and social critic of modern America, and is best known for his novel Native Son (1940). The
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Thomas, Dylan (1914 - 1953)
( dĭl'ən ), 1914–53, Welsh poet, b. Swansea. An extraordinarily individualistic writer, Thomas is ranked among the great 20th-century poets. He grew
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Nationality: Irish b. 13 April 1939, Casteldàwson, Northern Ireland; d. 30 August 2013, Dublin, Ireland “For works of lyrical beauty and ethical
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Walker, Alice, 1944-
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She attended college at Spelman and transferred to Sarah Lawrence, where she
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Jarrell, Randall (1914 - 1965)
1914-65 US poet and critic Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he graduated from Vanderbilt University and served in the air force in World War II. Many of
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Larsen, Nella (1891 - 1964)
In the late 1920s, Nella Larsen emerged as one of the leading literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing
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Ellison, Ralph [Waldo] (Mar 1, 1914 - Apr 16, 1994)
US novelist. His Invisible Man (1952) portrays with humour and energy the plight of a black man whom post-war US society cannot acknowledge. It is
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MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis (1907 - 1963)
Northern Irish poet, born in Belfast. He is noted for his low-key, socially committed but politically uncommitted verse; and his ability to reflect
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Shange, Ntozake (1948 - )
Playwright, Poet, Novelist Born in Trenton, New Jersey, on October 18, 1948, Paulette Linda Williams, who changed her name to Ntozake Shange in 1971,
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence (Jun 27, 1872 - Feb 9, 1906)
Poet The first black poet to gain a national reputation in the United States, Paul Laurence Dunbar was also the first to use black dialect within the
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Marshall, Paule (Apr 9, 1929 - )
Paule Marshall is a novelist and essayist whose work explores American-Caribbean cultural connections and conflicts through female protagonists.
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Morrison, Toni (1931 - )
Toni Morrison is one of the most lauded and recognized writers in the English language. An accomplished novelist, essayist, playwright, and
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
English-born US poet. He wrote some of his most original poetry, such as Look, Stranger! (1936), in the 1930s when he led the influential left-wing
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Toomer, Jean (Eugene Nathan) (1894 - 1967)
Best known for Cane , Jean Toomer's other work includes poetry, essays and other fiction manuscripts, and a large correspondence that has become of
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Chesnutt, Charles (1858 - 1932)
Charles Chesnutt confronted the perils of slavery and its reaches first through imaginative literature and then through political action. An artistic
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Stevens, Wallace (1879 - 1955)
Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1879. After studying at Harvard from 1987 to 1900, and briefly pursuing journalism in Manhattan,
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
James Baldwin's career illustrates the difficulties American authors face balancing their public and private lives. The tension between these lives
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Frost, Robert (Mar 26, 1874 - Jan 29, 1963)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) is renowned as one of America's most popular poets and for his achievement of winning four Pulitzer Prizes in poetry (1924,
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Lorde, Audre (1934 - 1992)
African American poet, essayist, autobiographer, and activist. Audre Lorde astounded and awakened generations of women with her writing, and her
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Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005
( ĕb'ərhärt´´ ), 1904–2005, American poet, b. Austin, Minn., grad. Dartmouth (1926) and Cambridge (1929, 1933). He taught at various universities
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Haley, Alex
Alex Murray Palmer Haley was born on August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, New York. When he was only six weeks old, his mother took him to live at her parents’
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