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Life
« Born Nathan Pinchback Toomer
« Mother Nina & father Nathan Toomer; a planter
« Grandfather Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback; first African-American governor
« In 1895, his father Nathan left; they moved in with their grandparents; only if Nathan‘¦s name was changed; Eugene Pinchback
« After he began writing, shortened his name to Jean
« Mother remarried and moved to New York; when she died, Jean moved back to Washington
« Concluded he would claim no ethnicity, only ‘§American‘¨
« Summer of 1931, met and married Margery Latimer, an author
« A year later, she died at child-birth; daughter ~ Margery
« In 1934, he married Marjorie Content
Education
« University of Wisconsin
« Massachusetts College of Agriculture
« American College of Physical Training at Chicago
« The University of Chicago
« City College of New York
« New York University
Publishings
« Cane (1923)
« The Wayward and the Seeking (1980)
« The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer (1988)
« Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms (1991)
« A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings (1993)
Bibliographies
« John M. Reilly ~ "Jean Toomer: An Annotated Checklist of Criticism,"
« Resources for American Literary Study (1974)
« Robert B. Jones ~ "Jean Toomer: An Annotated Checklist of Criticism, 1923-1993"
« Resources for American Literary Study (1994)
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Approximate Word count = 1171
Approximate Pages = 4.7
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