Cynthia Earl Kerman papers relating to The Lives of Jean Toomer 1959-1982

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Cynthia Earl Kerman papers relating to The Lives of Jean Toomer 1959-1982

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.kerman

Research notes, manuscripts, printed material, photographs and audio tapes.

2.50 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349400

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967

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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. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles ...

Kerman, Cynthia Earl

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Biographer of Kenneth E. Boulding. From the description of Cynthia Earl Kerman research files, 1927-1983. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81331774 Cynthia Earl Kerman is a historian and biographer. She has written biographies of Jean Toomer and Kenneth E. Boulding. She was a professor of English at Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland. From the guide to the Cynthia Earl Kerman research files, 1927-2011, 1927-1983, (Bentley Historical Library, ...