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(1903-1946) Author, anthologist, editor. Countee Cullen was born in Kentucky. He came to New York City and soon after that, specifically, to Harlem. He was a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. He died at Sydenham Hospital.

Full Name

Countee Cullen

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


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OTHER

Mr. Cullen moved to New York City and soon after that, specifically, to Harlem in Manhattan, New York.

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OTHER

Mr. Cullen lived in Tuckahoe, New York, during the last years of his life.

1903

BIRTH

Countee Cullen was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1903.

1922

OTHER

Mr. Cullen graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, in 1922.

1925

LITWORK

Color
Harper & Brothers

Poetry collection.

1926

OTHER

Countee Cullen received a master's degree from New York University in 1926.

1927

LITWORK

"Copper Sun"

1927

LITWORK

The Ballad of the Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold
Harper and Bros.

Poetry collection.

1927

LITWORK

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro People
New York: Harper and Brothers.


Edited by Mr. Cullen.

1927

LITWORK

Copper Sun
Harper Brothers

Poetry collection.

1929

LITWORK

The Black Christ, and Other Poems
Harper and Brothers

Collection of poetry.

1932

LITWORK

One Way to Heaven
Harper and Brothers

Novel, Mr. Cullen's only novel.

1935

LITWORK

The Medea and Some Poems
Harper and Brothers

Poetry.

1940

LITWORK

The Lost Zoo
Harper and Brothers

Book for young readers.

1942

LITWORK

My Lives and How I Lost Them
Harper and Brothers

Book for young readers.

1946

DEATH

Countee Cullen died at Sydenham Hospital in Manhattan, New York.

1946

INTERMENT

Countee Cullen is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York.

1947

LITWORK

On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen
Harper and Brothers Publishers

Verse.

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