Wallace Thurman (1902–1934) was an author, a native of Utah, and a member of the Harlem Renaissance. According to Langston Hughes, he was “…a strangely brilliant black boy, who had read everything and whose critical mind could find something wrong with everything he read.” . Wallace Thurman Thurman’s early life was tumultuous; his mother, Beulah, remarried five or six times after divorcing his father, Oscar Thurman. Thurman lived a...
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