Countee Cullen was one of the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Born In 1903, Cullen attended New York and Harvard universities. He was connected to a variety of figures from the era, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Arna Bontemps. He passed away in 1946.
Image: “Countee Cullen” by Winold Reiss (c. 1925). From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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