• Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance...
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    Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and...
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    grandparents of Jean Toomer. Their daughter Nina Pinchback Toomer returned to live with her parents after her husband abandoned her when Jean was an infant...
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  • mathematics Jean Toomer, American poet of the Harlem Renaissance Ron Toomer, roller coaster designer Walter Toomer (1883–1962), English footballer Toomer, an...
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  • (film), 1979 Hong Kong crime drama film Cane (novel), 1923 novel by Jean Toomer Cane (TV series), a U.S. television show Cane Ashby, a character on "The...
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  • Esther Popel George Schuyler Eulalie Spence Anne Spencer Wallace Thurman Jean Toomer Carl Van Vechten Eric Walrond Josephine Baker Anise Boyer Charles Sidney...
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    mentoring other African-American writers, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. She was born Jessie Redmona Fauset...
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  • long tails." "Becky" is the title and subject of the fourth segment of Jean Toomer's Harlem Renaissance novel Cane (1923), about a white woman with two black...
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    attracting disapproval. A Chicago-based Gurdjieff group was founded by Jean Toomer in 1927 after he had trained at the Prieuré for a year. Diana Huebert...
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  • About Love Raymond Carver 63 1914 Dubliners James Joyce 64 1923 Cane Jean Toomer 65 1905 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 66 1980 Riddley Walker Russell...
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