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Born July 8, 1902 • Texas
Died May 30, 1981 (aged 78) • Reading • Pennsylvania
Movement / Style Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
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Rita Dove
Rita Dove
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Sterling Brown
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
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Eric Walrond
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Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
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Tillie Olsen
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
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Wendell Berry
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin
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John Updike
John Updike
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Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
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Stein, Gertrude
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