# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-toomer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:30:25.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-toomer"
name: "Jean Toomer"
slug: "jean-toomer"
description: "Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the latter association. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles S. Johnson called it \"the most astonishingly brilliant beginning of any Negro writer of his generation\". He resisted being classified as a \"Negro\" writer and he identified as \"American\". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff."
tagline: "American poet and novelist (1894–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Toomer_passport_1926.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-12-26"
deathDate: "1967-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.878408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جان تومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چاين تومير"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jean Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer"
    title: "Jean Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer"
    title: "Jean Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer"
    title: "Jean Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer"
    title: "Jean Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer"
    title: "Jean Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Toomer"
    title: "Ioannes Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer"
    title: "Jean Toomer"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Тумер, Джин"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1277467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump