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- NAME: Wallace Henry Thurman
- OCCUPATION: Literary Critic, Editor, Author, Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: August 16, 1902
- DEATH DATE: December 22, 1934
- EDUCATION: University of Utah, University of Southern California
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Salt Lake City, Utah
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Wallace Henry Thurman was an African-American literary figure associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
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After work on literary journals and getting mixed reviews on is own work, Wallace Henry Thurman published his best-known novel, Infants of the Spring (1932), a satire of what he believed were the overrated creative figures of the Harlem scene. Some reviewers welcomed Thurman's bold insight, while others vilified him as a racial traitor, but Thurman never again wrote on African-American subjects.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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View groupDuring the early 20th century, African-American poets, musicians, actors, artists and intellectuals moved to Harlem in New York City and brought new ideas that shifted the culture forever. From approximately 1918 to the mid 1930s, talent began to overflow within this newfound culture of the black community in Harlem, as prominent figures—Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, to name a few—pushed art to its limit as a form of expression and representation. These are some of the famous African Americans who shaped the influential movement known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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