Countee Cullen was an American Poet who had a very large part in the Harlem Renaissance.
He was born on May 30th, 1903.
Cullen graduated from NYU and attended Harvard University for his master's degree, where he published his first first volume of poetry, Color.
He married W.E.B. Dubois's daughter, Nina, in 1928, but, shortly afterwards, they divorced each other.
He wrote The Black Christ in 1930, but, sadly, it did not receive good reviews.
Cullen also contributed to children’s literature by writing The Lost Zoo and Christopher Cat, which was very clever for the time.
Cullen remarried in 1940 to Isa Mae Robertson.
He died January 9th, 1946, at the young age of 42.
Cullen is one of the most celebrated African-American writers in our nation's history; many consider him to be one of the major voices of the Harlem Renaissance.