Harlem Renaissance Figure: Wallace Thurman

Wallace Thurman was born on August 16^th, 1902 and lived through the influential cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. After moving to Harlem, he found work as a writer and became well known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life. His novel, which dealt with themes of discrimination against African Americans, added to the massive literary movement that was taking place at the time. Wallace Thurman later died in New York at the age of 32 from complications with tuberculosis.