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Henry Dumas

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Gender Male
Death55 years ago
Date of birth July 20,1934
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Sweet Home
Arkansas
United States
Date of died May 23,1968
DiedManhattan
New York
United States
SpouseLoretta Ponton
Literary movementBlack Arts Movement
Job Teacher
Poet
Education The City College of New York
Rutgers University
BooksRope of wind and other stories
Goodbye, Sweetwater
Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas
Play ebony: play ivory
Jonoah and the green stone
Echo tree
Literari movementBlack Aesthetic
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Henry Dumas was an African-American writer and poet. He has been called "an absolute genius" by Toni Morrison, who as a commissioning editor at Random House published posthumous collections both of his poetry, Play Ebony, Play Ivory, and his short stories, Ark of Bones, in 1974.

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