1894 - 1967
Jean Toomer American Novelist
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Details
| First Name |
Jean
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| Last Name |
Toomer
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| Birthday |
26th December, 1894
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| Birthplace |
Washington, D.C
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| Died |
30th March, 1967
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| Place of Death |
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
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| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Writer
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| Occupation |
Novelist
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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 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". Toomer was for a time a follower of the spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff. Later in life he took up Quakerism.
