Countee Cullen Biography

Countee Cullen biography

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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.