Countee Cullen biography

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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.