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- '''Jean Toomer''' (December 26, 1894– March 30, 1967) was an African American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism. His first book Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many to be his most significant. He continued to write poetry, short stories and essays.
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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 with modernism.
An important figure in African-American literature, Jean Toomer (1894—1967) was born in Washington, DC, the grandson of the first governor of African-American descent in the United States. A poet, playwright, and novelist, Toomer’s most famous work, Cane, was published in 1923 and was hailed by…
Dec 30, 2010 · Jean Toomer was a writer whose 1923 book "Cane" wove poetry, prose and drama into its glimpses of African-American life in the early 20th century. "Cane" earned him a place among the...
Jean Toomer was born on December 26, 1894, in Washington, D.C., the son of Nathan Toomer, a Georgian farmer, and Nina Pinchback. His grandfather, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, was the first African American governor in the United States, serving in Louisiana during Reconstruction from 1872–73.
Dec 26, 2023 · Critically acclaimed author, poet, and playwright Jean Toomer (1894–1967) embraced Quakerism later in life, after he and his second wife, photographer Marjorie Content, moved from New York City, N.Y. to Doylestown, Pa. Toomer joined Buckingham Meeting in Lahaska, Pa., in 1940.
Sep 20, 2004 · Jean Toomer is best known as the author of the 1923 novel Cane, an influential work about African American life in which Toomer drew largely on his experiences in Hancock County.
Jean Toomer spent barely eight weeks of his life in Georgia, in the fall of 1921. But this short visit -- in the homeland of a father he never knew - inspired him to write the Middle Georgia county of Hancock into American literary history.
