Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen was born in 1903, probably in Louisville. Raised by a woman believed to be his paternal grandmother, he was taken in at about fifteen by a Methodist minister in Harlem, Frederick Cullen. He graduated from New York University and took a master's degree at Harvard. In 1928 he married the daughter of W. E. B. Du Bois, before some three thousand people, and divorced two years later. From 1934 he taught French at a Harlem junior high school, where James Baldwin was among his pupils. He died in New York in 1946.

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