Jean Toomer
Birth date: December 26, 1894
Died: March 30, 1967
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The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
A wonderful, magisterial voice - at its best, up there with Whitman - but young and unfinished. It has that explosive, tightrope feel of some early works by brilliant writers. It's known as the first important Black novel of the Harlem Renaissance, which is funny because it's not a novel and Toomer ...
I do like this series. Each book last half of a year in Alice's life. This, the second installment of her Junior year, did not disappoint. I like the characters, the situations mostly ring true, and the messages are not delivered via baseball bats. There are perhaps no surprises, but there's somethi...
Classic of the Harlem Renaissance. First heard of via Alice Walker, who adored the pictures of black Georgian farmwomen. The first section is vignettes set in the rural south, the second is slightly longer stories set in the urban south, the third is a single long story with play-like aspects from...
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