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Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist
Jean Toomer | |
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Toomer circa 1920–1930 | |
| Born | Nathan Pinchback Toomer (1894-12-26)December 26, 1894 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Died | March 30, 1967(1967-03-30) (aged 72) Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist |
| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Notable works | Cane (1923) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
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.
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 w