An image of Countée Cullen (1903–46), one of the Harlem Renaissance’s brightest stars, the first African American translator of a Greek tragedy (Medea), lyric poet, children’s book author, and reconciler of “a Christian upbringing with a pagan inclination”—along with an original bookplate from his home library:
Read more in And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen, by Charles Molesworth
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