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	Wallace Thurman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934) was an African American novelist during the Harlem Renaissance.
		Thurman was born in Salt Lake City in 1902.
		Thurman died in 1934 from tuberculosis, which many suspect was brought on by his long fight with alcoholism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallace_Thurman (347 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wallace Thurman was a leader and supporter of young writers during the Harlem Renaissance.
		Thurman's apartment, in a rooming house at 237 W. 136th Street, became a place for the inner circle of the literary figures of the time to meet and socialize.
		Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston mockingly referred to it as "Niggerati Manor," because of the group's status as literati.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/history/thurman.htm (346 words)

	Decadence, sexuality, and the Bohemian vision of Wallace Thurman - Critical Essay MELUS - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thurman's transgressive sexuality thus provides a framework for understanding his fascination with liminality and passing in a context which does not ritually condemn him for self loathing or racial sedition.
		Second, acknowledging the European and decadent aspects of Thurman's work puts him in literary company where his value as a writer is not judged solely by his contribution to the advancement of fl American racial dignity.
		Thurman may not have been a race leader worthy of NAACP approval, but his work continues to be read both popularly and in the academy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_28/ai_108114701/pg_11 (597 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Black writer had S.L. connection
		Born in Salt Lake City in 1902, Thurman was dead of tuberculosis by 1934.
		Besides family instability, Thurman suffered from a variety of illnesses during his growing years, including flu (during the 1918 epidemic) and "persistent heart attacks." During his illnesses, he became a voracious reader and wrote poetry about Gypsies, hell, heaven, love and suicide.
		Thurman led a "short, desperate" life, dedicated to writing as much and as brilliantly as he could, given a premonition of premature death.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590039868,00.html (661 words)

	DVD: Infants Of The Spring (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) $7.75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thurman's second nоvеl is one of the most potent satires of the Harlem Rеnаissаnсе and a retort to the idealized visiоn of Harlem's artistic community between Wоrld War I and the Depression.
		Thurman provides no answers, but he shows how suсh tensions - combined with self-delusion, brittleness, lack of аррliсаtiоn and other human failings - lead people who are struggling tо be creative to collapse in on themselves, with disastrous results.
		Thurman's style is jаuntу and, although highlу engaging, deters the reader from empathising greatly with the characters; yet I found the еnd of the book, which is on one level camp, strangely moving and upsetting.
	www.collection-anime.com /tovar31353535353331323838.html (957 words)

	Wallace Thurman
		Wallace Thurman settled in New York City at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of heightened fl literary activity during the mid-1920s.
		Thurman was lauded as a satirist and often used satire to accuse fls of prejudice against darker-skinned member of their race.
		Thurman maintained that fl writers were held back from making any great contribution to the canon of Negro literature by their race-consciousness and decadent lifestyles.
	aalbc.com /authors/wallace.htm (2110 words)

	Wallace Thurman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wallace Thurman was one of the most versitile writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
		Thurman took work as a journalist, a reader, an editor and a ghostwriter in an effort to pay the bills.
		Thurman was hospitalized and died in 1934 from tuberculosis.
	www.nortropic.com /lis341/future/wallace.html (200 words)

	The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader MELUS - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thurman is distinctly a has been--so many people have buried him.
		While these epigraphs distinctively indicate Thurman's iconoclastic ways, I was struck by the prophetic nature of the first epigraph which shows his awareness of his contemporary marginality and his possible future resurrection.
		He laments that while Thurman was "acclaimed by both his Harlem Renaissance peers and later historians as the most brilliant and radical of the younger writers of the period, he is known today largely through a few magazine pieces and two of his novels, The Blacker the Berry (1929) and Infants of the Spring (1932).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_30/ai_n14699054 (655 words)

	Harlem Renaissance Luminaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thurman studied at the University of Utah and the University of Southern California, although he did not receive a degree.
		He moved to Harlem in 1925, and by the time he became managing editor of the fl periodical Messenger in 1926, he had immersed himself in the Harlem literary scene and encouraged such writers as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to contribute to his publication.
		Thurman is perhaps best known for his novel Infants of the Spring (1932), a satire of what he believed were the overrated creative figures of the Harlem scene.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /blackhistorymonth/luminaries/thurman.html (225 words)

	THE FIRE!! PRESS - Wallace Thurman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Editor of FIRE!!, Thurman was the author of two important Harlem Renaissance novels, THE BLACKER THE BERRY and INFANTS OF THE SPRING.
		An important critic, and one of the first African-American editors to be employed by a mainstream publishing house, Thurman also co-authored HARLEM, a popular Broadway play based on "Cordelia the Crude," a story which appeared in FIRE!!.
		Thurman died of tuberculosis aggravated by alcoholism in 1934 at the age of 32.
	firepress.com /fire/bio1.html (97 words)

	Rodopi
		Thurman's complicated life as a fl writer is described here for the first time: from his birth in Salt Lake City, Utah; through his quixotic and spotty education; to his arrival and residence in New York City at the height of the New Negro Movement in Harlem.
		Seen from Thurman's perspective, as set against the historical and cultural background of the Jazz Age, the accomplishments of the Harlem Renaissance appear more qualified and more equivocal.
		In Thurman's view the Harlem Renaissance's failure to live up to its initial promise resulted from an ideological underpinning which was overwhelmingly concerned with race.
	www.rodopi.nl /senj.asp?BookId=COS+93 (196 words)

	AskMen.com - Uma Thurman
		Just as easily as she does a small art house movie, she takes on a big blockbuster, and just as she seems to be everywhere, she disappears into obscurity.
		Uma Karuna Thurman was born April 29, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, and had an eccentric, multicultural upbringing.
		Her mother, Nena, is a half-Swedish, half-German former psychotherapist, while her father, Robert A.F. Thurman, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and a University of Columbia professor.
	www.askmen.com /women/actress_60/62_uma_thurman.html (423 words)

	PlayingWithFire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		, established in 1926 by Wallace Thurman, was essentially created in response to the overt politicizing of the New Negro by an older generation of fl artists and activists–– particularly the renowned and influential W.E.B. DuBois––who were using the achievements of their race for propagandistic purposes.
		Wallace Thurman had arrived in New York City in 1925, at the inception of Locke's New Negro movement, and he was soon deeply committed to the Renaissance.
		Thurman had expected that the Harlem Negroes would "erect a statue" to Van Vechten for his achievement and was saddened to see that his prophecy had failed to "pan out." His editorial, then, is mostly a reiteration of his admiration for NiggerHeaven and a critique of those who condemned it.
	www.rlc.dcccd.edu /annex/COMM/english/mah8420/PlayingWithFire.htm (6028 words)

	PAL: Wallace Thurman (1902-1934)
		Thurman had read so many books because he could read eleven lines at a time.
		Gaither, Renoir W. "The Moment of Revision: A Reappraisal of Wallace Thurman's Aesthetics in The Blacker the Berry and Infants of the Spring." College Language Association Journal 37.1 (Sep 1993): 81-93.
		At a time when Black writers were dependent on White editors and publishers, Wallace Thurman had the courage and foresight to plan and publish a quarterly magazine to provide opportunities for new talents.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/thurman.html (1016 words)

	Brother To Brother - HISTORY/LINKS
		The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader by Amritjit Singh, et al 6.
		Infants of the Spring (The Black Heritage Library Collection) by Wallace Thurman 7.
		Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance by Eleonore Van Notten 9.
	www.wolfereleasing.com /brothertobrother/history.asp (556 words)

	Infants Of The Spring (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) - Wallace Thurman, Amritjit Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This little-known classic of the Harlem Renaissance--by the mysterious, Utah-born bisexual Wallace Thurman, who died in obscurity in 1934--is both timeless and timely.
		Thurman provides no answers, but he shows how such tensions - combined with self-delusion, brittleness, lack of application and other human failings - lead people who are struggling to be creative to collapse in on themselves, with disastrous results.
		Thurman's style is jaunty and, although highly engaging, deters the reader from empathising greatly with the characters; yet I found the end of the book, which is on one level camp, strangely moving and upsetting.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-1555531288.html (754 words)

	Vignette: Wallace Thurman
		WALLACE THURMAN, a writer who exemplified the potential and contradictions of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Salt Lake City in 1902.
		The idea of flowering and innovative fl cultural expression fascinated Thurman, and he tried in Los Angeles to set in motion what was happening in Harlem.
		Thurman was always a somewhat sickly man, and the fast pace of New York took its toll.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/thurman_wallace.htm (225 words)

	JS Online:Packers bring back Thurman, Williams
		Thurman and Wallace will help bolster the receiving unit until Robert Ferguson returns from a knee injury and Williams will help fill the void left by Green.
		Claiming Thurman, who was released on the Packers' final cut and played five games with the Titans, wasn't a surprise.
		Thurman was on the practice squad most of last year, was activated for the playoffs when Ferguson was injured and had a solid training camp before losing out in a numbers game at the receiver position.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=365827&format=print (926 words)

	The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature: Thurman, Wallace @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thurman, Wallace (1902–1934), novelist, editor, poet, playwright, and literary critic.
		After leaving his native Salt Lake City, Utah, for the University of Southern California, Wallace Thurman established the Outlet, a magazine similar to those being published as part of the artistic renaissance then blossoming in Harlem, New York.
		The younger Thurman became a scathing critic of the bourgeois attitudes that motivated the Harlem Renaissance old guards like Alain Locke and W. (This preview shows 600 of 5469 characters)
	highbeam.com /doc/1O52:ThurmanWallace/Thurman,+Wallace+...?refid=ip_hf (184 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Thurman
		Harlem shadows: re-evaluating Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry.(II.
		Exploding the Canon: A Re-Examination of Wallace Thurman's Assault on the Harlem Renaissance.
		Scholar Robert Thurman trades his Western ego for a Buddhist self.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Thurman (383 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		The 267 House—a rent-free residence at 267 West 136th Street—was the home and gathering place of writer Wallace Thurman and a circle of other artists and bohemians.
		Thurman, the principal backer of Fire!!, fell into such deep debt that co-workers at the World Tomorrow magazine had to buy him a new coat.
		Thurman worked hard for the next four years to repay the printer.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/themes/fire_text.html (419 words)

	paper four presentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thesis: The Blacker the Berry reflects the life views of Wallace Thurman.
		are places that Wallace Thurman visited in his life.
		To face the real truth of fl life, as Richard Wright would do in Black Boy and Native son meant dropping the frail facade of gentility." Thurman's racy satire stirred this gentility.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~brainiac/paper_four_presentation.html (228 words)

	Tales of the City: Marginality, Community, and the Problem of (Gay) Identity in Wallace Thurman's "Harlem" Fiction
		Tales of the City: Marginality, Community, and the Problem of (Gay) Identity in Wallace Thurman's "Harlem" Fiction
		Spotlights the contribution to modern American writing by Wallace Thurman's "Harlem" fiction.
		Endeavors to link a racial imperative to a sexual imperative by means of a current theoretical discourse surrounding notions of city and community life.
	www.ncte.org /pubs/journals/ce/articles/110262.htm (153 words)

	Uma Thurman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uma Karuna Thurman, daughter of Robert Thurman and Nena Thurman, was...
		Uma Thurman has 2 in-development credits available on IMDbPro.com.
		Find where Uma Thurman is credited alongside another name
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	Wallace Thurman Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Wallace Thurman Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		He is taken to "The Niggerati Manor, " an apartment building in Harlem inhabited by aspiring artists whose true...
		This is the definitive collection of the writings of Thurman (1902-1934), providing a comprehensive anthology of both the published and unpublished works of this bohemian, bisexual writer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Wallace_Thurman (257 words)

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	Gay Books: Infants of the Spring
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		This little-known classic of the Harlem Renaissance by the mysterious, Utah-born bisexual Wallace Thurman, who died in obscurity in 1934, is both timeless and timely.
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