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Also Known As Jessie Redmon Harris
Born April 27, 1882 • New Jersey
Died April 30, 1961 (aged 79) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Notable Works “Comedy: American Style” • “Plum Bun” • “The Chinaberry Tree” • “There Is Confusion”
Movement / Style Harlem Renaissance

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Robert Penn Warren
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Anthony Boucher
American author, editor, and critic
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Susanna Rowson
American author and actress
Bunner, Henry Cuyler
Henry Cuyler Bunner
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American author
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Etheridge Knight
American poet
Dorothy West
Dorothy West
American writer
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
American writer
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James Weldon Johnson
American writer
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen
American poet
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Wallace Henry Thurman
American writer
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Gwendolyn Bennett
American writer
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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