Jean Toomer (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Nathan Pinchback Toomer (by school age he was known as Eugene Pinchback Toomer) was born in Washington, D.C., on December 26, 1894, the son of Nina Pinchback and Nathan Toomer. Until he was almost eleven, he lived with his maternal grandparents, his father having left the family in 1895. Racially mixed and able to pass as white, the Pinchbacks lived in an affluent white neighborhood, though Toomer's grandfather was well known as a black and briefly had been the governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction.
When Nina Toomer was remarried (to Archibald Combes,...
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