The Countee Cullen Page

( 1903-1946 )

Major Works
My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance is edited with an introduction by Gerald Early. Doubleday, 1991. Color ( 1925 ).
Copper Sun ( 1927 ).
The Ballad of the Brown Girl ( 1927 ).
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets ( 1927 ).
The Black Christ and Other Poems ( 1929 ).
One Way to Heaven ( 1932 ). A satirical novel
The Medea and Some Poems ( 1935 ). The title work is Cullen's translation of Euripides' play.
The Lost Zoo ( 1940 ). This book and the next were written for children by Cullen and by his creation, Christopher Cat, a real cat.
My Lives and How I Lost Them ( 1942 ).
On These I Stand ( 1947 ). Cullen's anthology of his own verse.

About Cullen
Alan R. Shucard, Countee Cullen. Twayne, 1984.
Countee Cullen from Poets.org.
Countee Cullen from Modern American Poetry.
PAL: CC. Bibliography, assessment.

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