Countée Cullen (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Countée Porter Cullen has been called the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in New York City, Cullen was reared in the parsonage of Salem Methodist Episcopal Church in the middle of Harlem, where his father, the Reverend Frederick Cullen, was the pastor and an influential personality in the social, political, and cultural life of New York City. After his graduation from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York, Cullen entered New York University, from which he graduated in 1923 with a bachelor’s degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key. In the fall of that year he entered Harvard...
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