Countée Cullen (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Countée Cullen wrote nearly as much prose as he did poetry. While serving from 1926 through most of 1928 as literary editor of Opportunity, a magazine vehicle for the National Urban League, Cullen wrote several articles, including book reviews, and a series of topical essays for a column called “The Dark Tower” about figures and events involved in the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote many stories for children, most of which are collected in My Lives and How I Lost Them (1942), the “autobiography” of Cullen’s own pet, Christopher...
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