The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924

Considered deeply controversial because of his experimental writing style and complicated racial heritage, Jean Toomer was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and in the twentieth-century modernist movement. Toomer has been the focus of much research, and over the years, his letters have been widely cited by specialists on the literature of the period.

The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919–1924 is the first-ever annotated collection of the author’s correspondence. The letters included in the...