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Biografía del autor

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. His modernist work Cane was an inspiration for many African American authors.

Rudolph P. Byrd (Ph.D. Yale University) is the Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Department of African American Studies and the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University. He is the author and editor of ten books, including "Jean Toomer s Years with Gurdjieff"; "Essentials by Jean Toomer with Charles Johnson"; " Charles Johnson s Novels: Writing the American Palimpsest"; "The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson"; and with "Alice Walker The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker". Among Professor Byrd s awards and fellowships are an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Harvard University; Visiting Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center; and the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University. He is a founding officer of the Alice Walker Literary Society.