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- NAME: Countee Cullen
- BIRTH DATE: May 30, 1903
- DEATH DATE: January 09, 1946
- EDUCATION: New York University, Harvard University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Louisville, Kentucky
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Countee Cullen was an African-American poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement. His best known works are Copper Sun and The Black Christ.
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Countee Cullen was born on May 30, 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky. At 15 was adopted by Rev. F.A. Cullen, minister of a large Harlem congregation. Cullen won a citywide poetry contest as a schoolboy, and the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize at NYU. In 1928, he married the daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois. Among Cullen's works are Black Christ, Copper Sun, and The Ballad of the Brown Girl. He died in 1946.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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