Toomer, Jean

Toomer, Jean( 1894–1967),
black author, born in Washington, D.C., after graduation from New York University (1918) wrote Cane (1923), a miscellany of stories, verses, and a drama concerned with the emotional life of black people. His other books are Essentials (1931), aphorisms, and Portage Potential (1932). The Wayward and the Seeking (1980) is a selection from his writings, and his Collected Poems was issued in 1988.