Wallace Henry Thurman, an African-American writer who is best known for his many contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 16, 1902. His father abandoned the family shortly after Thurman's birth, and his mother married and divorced various times. His mother often sent him to stay with his grandmother, who […]
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