Countee Cullen
(1903–1946)

Unlike most other poets of his time, Countee Cullen used traditional forms and methods. However, no poet expressed the general sentiments of African Americans during the early 1900s more eloquently than Cullen.

Cullen was born in New York City. He graduated from New York University and later earned a master's degree from Harvard. His first collection of poetry, Color, was published in 1925. This was followed by Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1927), and The Black Christ (1929). In 1932 he published One Way to Heaven, a satirical novel about life in Harlem. During his later years he published two children's books, The Lost Zoo (1940) and My Lives and How I Lost Them (1942).

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