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Jean Toomer

1894–1967
Jean Toomer c. 1925 by Winold Reiss, pastel on illustration board. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Lawrence A. Fleischman and Howard Garfinkle with a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts)

Major works:
Cane • “Blue Meridian”

Books

Harlem Renaissance Novels (boxed set)
Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s LOA N°217
Jean Toomer: Cane (LOA eBook Classic)

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