N. Jean Toomer

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N. Jean Toomer

N. Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American Quaker poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff.

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