Biography on countee

Countee Cullen

Poet, anthologist, novelist, translator, children's writer, and playwright, Countee Cullen is something of a mysterious figure.

Biography on countee

He was a leading African American Romantic poet poets of his time and one of the lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Countee Cullen won more major literary prizes than any other black writer of the 1920s: first prize in the Witter Bynner Poetry contest in 1925, Poetry magazine's John Reed Memorial Prize, the Amy Spin garn Award of the Crisis magazine, second prize in Opportunity magazine's first poetry contest, and second prize in the poetry contest of Palms.

In addition, he was the second black to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Cullen was born Countee LeRoy Porter and was believed to be abandoned by his parents at birth (although this is somewhat unknown). He was raised by his grandmother, Mrs.

Porter. Cullen was secretive about his life, so it is unclear where he was actually born; some scholars claim he was born in Louisville,