Wallace Thurman

Wallace Henry Thurman ( born August 16, 1902 in Salt Lake City, Utah; † 22 December 1934 in New York City ) was an American writer and an important representative of the Harlem Renaissance in African-American literature.

Life

After schooling Thurman briefly studied from 1919 to 1920 at the University of Utah and 1922-1923 at the University of Southern California.

Mid-1920s, he lived in niggerati Manor, a renowned artist house in New York City, in the other African-American writers such as Richard Bruce Nugent and Langston Hughes lived. There the idea of ​​publishing a quarterly magazine, which should represent exclusively the literature young African American writers emerged.

In the summer of 1926, he was eventually co-founder of the magazine Fire! That carried in accordance with the substantive goal subtitled " Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists". For the first and at the same time last edition in November 1926, he also wrote literary contributions. The financial failure of the Fire! Magazine, which left her in debt for years all of its co-founder, ultimately contributed to his alcoholism.

Nevertheless, the magazine founded his style of the Harlem Renaissance, a supported among others by the photographer Carl van Vechten direction within the African-American literature.

Wallace Thurman was his novels The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929 ), Infants of the Spring ( 1932) and The Internal (1932 ) one of the main representatives of this literary group. At the age of only 32, he finally died from the effects of tuberculosis.

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