| Countee Cullen  AKA Countee Porter Cullen
Born: 30-May-1903
Birthplace: Louisville, KY
Died: 9-Jan-1946
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Harlem Renaissance poet Wife: Yolande Du Bois (dau. of W. E. B. Du Bois, m. 1928, div. 1930)
Wife: Ida Robertson
High School: DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx, NY
University: BA, New York University (1925)
University: MA, Harvard University (1926)
Teacher: P.S. 139, Harlem, NY
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Guggenheim Fellowship
Author of books:
Color (1925, poetry)
Copper Sun (1927, poetry)
The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1928, poetry)
The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929, poetry)
One Way to Heaven (1932, novel)
The Medea and Some Poems (1935, poetry)
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