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Wallace Henry Thurman (August 16, 1902 – December 22, 1934) was an American novelist and screenwriter active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals.
Wallace Henry Thurman (born Aug. 16, 1902, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.—died Dec. 22, 1934, New York, N.Y.) was an African-American editor, critic, novelist, and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
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Thurman, the first African-American reader for a major publishing house, is best known for his work The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929) which explored discrimination based on skin tone within the black community. Later that year his play, ‘Harlem,’ debuted on Broadway.
May 29, 2018 · One of the most gifted editors and critics of the Harlem Renaissance, Wallace Thurman, though an initial supporter of the flourishing African American art scene of the 1920s, became one of its most virulent critics.
Jan 21, 2007 · Wallace Thurman published three novels: The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, which explores intra-racial conflicts related to skin color; Infants of the Spring, which satirizes the Harlem Renaissance and its leading artists; and The Interne (1932), co-authored with A.L. Furman.
Apr 26, 2018 · As an editor, novelist, and playwright, Wallace Thurman sought to offer honest, unabashed portraits of black life in Harlem.
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Wallace Thurman Dramatist, Journalist, Novelist. Born. August 16, 1902. Died. December 22, 1934. Country. United States of America. Shortly after the talented writer Wallace Thurman moved to Harlem in the early 1920s, he was given the rare opportunity to become the circulation manager of a white-run magazine, The World Tomorrow.
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