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- Toomer's diverse writings, which include plays, letters, and reviews, have been compiled in The Wayward and the Seeking, edited by Darwin Turner.
- Arna Bontemps, a contemporary of Toomer during the Harlem Renaissance, produced numerous works of poetry, fiction, and criticism. One of his most notable works is God Sends Sunday, a novel rooted in the old blues tradition.
- James Weldon Johnson, an African-American author who came before Toomer, also faced the challenge of being categorized and dismissed as a "black writer." His 1912 novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, was republished with an introduction by Arna Bontemps.
- Since Toomer's era, many significant works addressing African-American identity have emerged. One of the most impactful is Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man.
- Jean Toomer and Claude McKay are often regarded as the pioneering writers of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay's 1928 novel Home to Harlem offers readers a glimpse into life in Harlem during that period.
- Sherwood Anderson, considered one of Toomer's mentors, supported him through the publication of Cane. Anderson's most famous work, Winesburg, Ohio, published in 1919, shares stylistic similarities with Toomer's writing.
- The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer was released in 1988 by the University of North Carolina Press. This collection was edited by Robert B. Jones and Margery Toomer Latimer, the author's daughter.
- Toomer was known for denying permission to reprint his works in anthologies of African-American literature, as he did not wish to be categorized as black. Nevertheless, one of the stories from Cane that appears in anthologies is "Becky," included in Mentor Books' 1971 collection Prejudice, edited by Charles R. Larson.
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