Wallace thurman biography

Wallace Henry Thurman

One of the most gifted editors and critics of the Harlem Renaissance, Wallace Thurman, though an initial supporter of the flourishing African American art scene of the 1920s, became one of its most virulent critics.

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Arriving in New York in 1925, during the second phase of the Harlem Renaissance, he helped launch two short-lived periodicals dedicated to black artists and wrote three novels and several plays. The leading bohemian figure of Harlem's literary circle, Thurman envisioned an African American literary movement owing itself, not to the patronage of elitist black intellectuals and white

Thurman was born on August 16, 1902, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Beulah and Oscar Thurman.

His father moved to California not long after the birth, leaving Thurman in the care of his mother. Though raised by Beulah, Thurman developed a loving bond to ‘Ma Jack’ (Emma Jackson), his maternal grandmother.

A sickly child, Thurman spent many hours of