Career
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Poet, columnist, editor, novelist, playwright, children's writer, and educator. Assistant editor and author of monthly column "The Dark Tower" for Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, 1926-28; traveled back and forth between France and the United States, 1928-34; Frederick Douglass Junior High School, New York City, teacher of English, French, and creative writing, 1934-45.