Countee Porter Cullen : Bibliography


Written by Countee Cullen


The Ballad of the Brown Girl, An Old Ballad Retold. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. (Held by University of Virginia)

The Black Christ and Other Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. (Held by University of Virginia)

Color. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925; Ayer, 1993. American Negro: His History and Literature Series No. 3 (Held at Carrier Library)

Copper Sun. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. (Held by University of Virginia)

Letter, 1932 March 15, Detroit, Michigan, to "Dear Miss Gates [manuscript] (Held by University of Virginia)

The Medea and Some Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. (Held by University of Virginia)

One Way to Heaven. New York: AMS Press, 1975. [Fiction] (Held by University of Virginia

On These I Stand; An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. (Held by Carrier Library)

Poetry of Countee Cullen. Audio cassette. Harper Audio, 1979.

The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Moden American Poets Reading Their Poems. [sound recording] vol. 8. New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, 1985. (Held by University of Virginia)

To Make a Poet Black; The Best Poems of Countee Cullen. Audio cassette. Caedmon Audio, 1971. (Held by University of Virginia)

Children's Books


The Lost Zoo. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney. Silver Burdett, 1991.

Humorous children's poetry.

Cat, Christopher and Countee Cullen. The Lost Zoo (A Rhyme for the Young, but Not Too Young. Illus. by Charles Sebree. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. (Held by University of Virginia)

Cullen, Countee and Nubia Owens. My Lives and How I Lost Them. Silver Burdett, 1993.

Juvenile fiction: cats

Works edited by Cullen


Caroling Dusk; An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties. Edited by Countee Cullen; decorations by Aaron Douglas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927; Citadel Press, 1993. (Held at Carrier Library)

Gerald Early, eds. My Soul's High Song; The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Gerald Early. New York: Doubleday (Anchor), 1991. (Held by University of Virginia)

Interpretation and Criticism


Baker, Houston. A Many-Colored Coat of Dreams. 1st ed. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974.

Ferguson, Blanche E. Countee Cullen and the Negro Renaissance. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966.

Shucard, Alan R. Countee Cullen. Twayne's United States Authors Series. Twayne, 1984.

Turner, Darwin T. In a Minor Chord; Three Afro-American Writers and Their Search for Identity. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971.

Cullen Papers

Papers, 1921-1969. [microform] New Orleans, Amistad Research Center, Dillard University, ?1975.

Plays


St. Louis Woman. Vocal selections; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; book by Arna Bontemps & Countee Cullen. New York: Chappell; distributed by Charles H. Hansen, 1976, c1946. (Held by Carrier Library)

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