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Bio

(1902-1934) African American fiction writer/editor. Wallace Thurman was born in Salt Lake City and lived in New York City.

Full Name

Wallace Thurman

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1902

BIRTH

Wallace Henry Thurman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1902.

1925

RESIDENCE

Thurman moved to New York City in 1925 and lived in Harlem, Manhattan, New York.

1926

OTHER

Thurman began writing for "The Messenger," a black socialist journal.

1926

OTHER

Thurman published the first edition of the magazine "Fire!!" with the help of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.

1929

LITWORK

Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem


Play which was produced on Broadway in collaboration with William Jourdan Rapp.

1929

LITWORK

The Blacker the Berry


Novel.

1932

LITWORK

Infants of Spring


A satiric novel of the Harlem Renaissance.

1932

LITWORK

The Interne


Novel; written in collaboration with Abraham L. Furman.

1934

DEATH

Wallace Thurman died of tuberculosis in 1934.

1934

INTERMENT

Wallace Thurman is buried in Silver Mount Cemetery in New York, New York.

1935

LITWORK

Tomorrow's Children


Screenplay.

1935

LITWORK

High School Girl


Screenplay.

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