Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. Jean resisted being classified as a Negro writer, as he identified as "American". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff. Later in life he took up Quakerism.
Toomer continued to write poetry, short stories and essays. His first wife died soon after the birth of their daughter. After he married again in 1934, Toomer moved with his family from New York to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. There he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.
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Fiction, African Americans, Literature, Classic Literature, Confederacy, Drama, History, Union, United States Civil War, hanging, American literature, Literary collections, Prisoners, Readers (Secondary), Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Satanism, Study and teaching (Secondary), clergy, freedom, meaning of love, selfhood, sextons, short story, American dramaPlaces
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1861-1865, 19th century, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1861-65, 20th century, 1600s, Civil War, December, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL30968A
- ISNI: 0000000120198120
- VIAF: 2489741
- Wikidata: Q1277467
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1277467
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- Jean TOOMER
- Nathan Pinchback Toomer
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