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BIBLIOGRAPHY

These are the books and articles used in the construction of the biography of Jean Toomer. [9] can be found on the web. Please observe that references [2], [7], [11], [12], and [13] are in print, so order them from your local bookseller. The rest were in the university library.

[0]The student of Jean Toomer should consult with the Special Collections Library at Fisk University and at Yale's Beinwecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. But no real study of Toomer can exist in the absence of serious investigation in to the system of G. I. Gurdjieff.

[1] Rudolph Byrd - Jean Toomer's years with Gurdjieff
[2] Arna Bontempts - Introduction to Cane
[3] Williams Stanley Braithwaite, The Negro in Literature, Crisis 28, 1924: 209
[4] Toni Morrison, Review of Darwin Turner's editing of uncollected and autobiographical writings of Jean Toomer in The Wayward and the Seeking, New York Times Nook Reveiw, 7/13/1980.
[5] Kathleen Riordan Speeth - The Gurdjieff Work
[6] Beth McCorkle - The Gurdjieff Years 1929-1949: recollections of Louise March
[7] Langston Hughes - The Big Sea
[8] Henry Louis Gates - Figures in Black
[9] George Baker and Walter Driscoll - Gurdjieff in America
[10] Fritz Peters - Gurdjieff Remembered
[11] Cynthia Earl Kerman and Richard Eldridge - The Lives of Jean Toomer, a hunger for wholeness
[12] Robert B. Jones and Margery Toomer Latimer - The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
[13] William Patrick Patterson, Struggle of the Magicians, Arete Communications, Publishers (1996).
[14] Paul Beekman Taylor - Shadows of Heaven: Gurdjieff and Toomer (Samuel Wesier, York Beach Me. 1998)
[15] Charles Scruggs - Newly Discovered Articles by Jean Toomer, Arizona Quarterly 51: 2 (Summer 1995).
[16] Barbara Foley - Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From 'Blue Veins' to Seventh-Street Rebels, Modern Fiction Studies 42 (Summer 1996), 289-321.
[17] Jean Toomer papers Yale.

OTHER REFERENCES ABOUT AND BY TOOMER

By Jean Toomer, abridged - for more see The Lives of Jean Toomer Louisiana State University Press, 1987: Also note that Toomer edited the manuscript of and Toomer wrote all the dialogue in Waldo Frank's Holiday originally published jointly with Cane.

  1. Jean Toomer, Ghouls, The New York Call, 15 June 1919
  2. Jean Toomer, Reflections on the Race Riots, The New York Call, 2 August 1919
  3. Jean Toomer, Americans and Mary Austin, The New York Call, 10 October 1920
  4. Jean Toomer, Cane
  5. Balo, a play in Plays of Negro Life, Alaine Locke and Montgomery Gregory, ed
  6. Jean Toomer, Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms
  7. Jean Toomer, A Jean Toomer reader
  8. Jean Toomer, Kabnis, a play (in Kuntu Drama edited by Paul Harrison)
  9. Jean Toomer, The Hill, an essay in America and Alfred Stieglitz, Waldo Frank, ed
  10. Jean Toomer, A Certain November, a short story in Dubuque Dial, IV (December 1935), 107-12
  11. Jean Toomer, Blue Meridian, a poem in The New Caravan, Kreymborg, Mumford, and Rosenfeld, ed
  12. Jean Toomer, A Fiction and Some Facts, a pamphlet (1937)
  13. Jean Toomer, Living is Developing, a pamphlet (1937)
  14. Jean Toomer, Work-Ideas I, a pamphlet (1937)
  15. Jean Toomer, Roads, People, and Principals, a pamphlet (1939)
  16. Jean Toomer, Santa Claus Will Not Bring Peace, an essay in Friends Intelligencer, C (1943), 851-852
  17. Jean Toomer, An interpretation of Friends Worship, a pamphlet (1947)
  18. Jean Toomer, Authority, Inner and Outer, an essay in Friends Intelligencer, CIV (1947), 352-353
  19. Jean Toomer, Spiritual Scarcity, essay in Philadelphia Inquirer (March 28, 1949)
  20. Jean Toomer, Blessing and Curse, an essay in Friends Intelligencer, CVII (1950), 576-577
  21. The Wayward and the Seeking, a collection of writings by Jean Toomer, Darwin Turner, ed
  22. Jean Toomer, Portage Potential, an Adventure in Human Development, circulated privately (1932)
  23. Why I entered the Gurdjieff Work, circulated privately (1954)
  24. First Trip to Fountainbleau, circulated privately (1955)

About Jean Toomer, abridged - for more see The Lives of Jean Toomer Louisiana State University Press, 1987:

  1. Banc! - Fisk University Library; Special Collections issue on Jean Toomer
  2. Brian Benson and Mabel Dilliard - Jean Toomer
  3. Robert Bone - Jean Toomer
  4. Rudolph Byrd - Jean Toomer and the writers of the Harlem Renaissance
  5. Mabel Dilliard - Jean Toomer herald of the Negro
  6. Melvin Dixon - Ride out the Wilderness
  7. Henry Louis Gates - Jean Toomer and Literary Criticism
  8. Nathan Grant - Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston: Legacies of Migration, Masculinity and Modernity
  9. Fritz Gysin - The grotesque in American Negro fiction
  10. George Hutchinson - Jean Toomer and the "New Negroes"
  11. Robert Jones - Jean Toomer and the prison-house of thought
  12. Charles Larson - Invisible Darkness
  13. Nellie McKay - Jean Toomer, artist
  14. Gorham Munson - The Significance of Jean Toomer (in Destinations, A canvas of American Literature since 1900)
  15. Darwin Turner - In a minor chord: three Afro-American writers

Biographies of other folks containing additional information on Toomer

  1. Ladies of the Rope, William Patrick Patterson (1999)
  2. First Trip to Fountainbleau, circulated privately (1955)


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