Countee Cullen correspondence 1918-1939 (bulk 1918-1927)

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Countee Cullen correspondence 1918-1939 (bulk 1918-1927)

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The collection consists of letters from poet Countee Cullen to his childhood friend William Fuller Brown, Jr. Much of the correspondence refers to Cullen's writing and includes many handwritten and manuscript copies of poems.

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Givens Collection of African-American Literature, Special Collections and Rare Books [scrbg]

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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946

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African-American poet, anthologist, translator, playwright and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen was graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in New York City and from New York University in 1925. While attending NYU he held a part-time job as a doorman at the Grolier Club, a New York City bibliophile society. He took post-graduate work at Harvard University and received an M.A. From the description of TLS : Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Frederick B. Coykendall, ...

Brown, William Fuller, 1904-1983

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William Fuller Brown (1904-1983) received his BA in English from Cornell University in 1925, after which he continued to teach at that school and also Princeton. He went on to get a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia in 1937. After completing his Ph.D., Brown worked on degausing at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory, then on geophysical and production problems for Sun Oil, and on magnetic problems for 3M, which lead him to Minnesota. Brown was concerned with the teaching of electromagnetic theory, and i...

Dewitt Clinton High School (New York, N.Y.)

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