Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American Romantic poet. Cullen was one of the leading African American poets of his time, associated with the generation of ...
Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage. He attended De Witt Clinton High School in New York and began writing poetry at the age of ...