CounteeCullen

• __**Personal Life**__- Poet, born in New York City, USA. Raised by foster parents, he studied at New York University in 1925 and Harvard in 1926 Having achieved some recognition for his poetry while still a student, as an African-American he was regarded as contributing to the so-called Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s with Langston Hughes. Countee Cullen was very secretive about his life, he was abandoned by his mother and was sent to foster home.Cullen won a citywide poetry contest and saw his winning stanzas widely reprinted. Information from- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm

• __**Professional Life**__- he spent most of the next six years in Paris. On returning to New York City he taught at a junior high school 1934–1946 and also edited a magazine,Oppurtunity. In addition to his poetry, he wrote a novel, One way to Heaven 1932,and stories for children. • Major works- He wrote poetries for fun then he started getting use to it and started writing different novels. - in 1952 he wrote **COLOR**- was published in the same year he graduated from NYU. Written in a careful, traditional style, the work celebrated black beauty and deplored the effects of racism. Color included 'Heritage' and 'Incident', probably his most famous poems. - in 1927 he wrote **__The Copper Sun__** - in 1927 he also wrote **__The Ballad of the Brown Girl: Aan Old Ballad Retold.__**

• **__Awards won__**- Countee Cullen won a Citywide poetry Contest -First Prize in the Witter Bynner Poetry Contest in 1925 -Poetry Magazine's John Reed Memorial Prize -The Amy Spin Award of the Crisis Magazine -Second prize in opportunity Magazine's first poetry contest and Second Prize in the poetry contest of palms. -He was also the second black man to win a Guggenheim Fellowship. -Harmon Foundation Literary Award in 1927
 * **__Period and/or Style__**-Cullen's literary style rivaled his personal flair. While his poems explored modern racial injustices within classical forms such as the 14-line sonnet, his courtly manners and impeccable dress distinguished him as a true gentleman.
 * __**Favorite Themes**__- When he write about Poems he stays on racial issues thats happening around the world nowadays.
 * he also write children books the kind of books kids can enjoy if they don't have anything to do at home they can just sit down and anjoy a very good and wonderful book by Countee Cullen. In his poems he also talks about Race, Homosexuality, Visual and Verbal Androgyny.
 * For more Information go to: __**http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cullen/cullen.htm**__