Richard Bruce Nugent

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Richard Bruce Nugent

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1906 - 1987

Occupation

Writer

Description

African American writer, part of the Harlem Renaissance. Sexually out from an early age. His creative involvement included two brush and ink drawings and a short story, 'Smoke, Lilies, and Jade'. This short story was the first literary work on a purely homosexual theme that had been published by a black. One of the founders of the literary magazine Fire!!, whose first and only issue was published in 1926. Close friend of Langston Hughes.

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