Count Cullen was a very humble and ambitious man. He was perhaps the most representative voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Earl Cullen was born on May 30, 1903 probably as Earl Leroy Lucas in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born to a woman named Elizabeth Lucas but presumably abandoned. Cullen was sent to live with his paternal grandmother in New York City. Then Cullen was adopted by Fredrick Asbury Cullen. Cullen attended Clinton High School in New York City, a school famous for its excellence. Cullen wanted to succeed because of the way he bounced around and knew he had a knack as a writer. In 1922 he entered New York University. In 1925 he was elected phi betta kappa and won first prize in the Witter Bynner poetry competition. He entered Havard University in 1926. He completed a master of arts at Havard and accepted a position as assistant editor when he had the opportunity. A Journal of Negro Life was his first of his best works, and in 1927 he became the first recipient of the Harmon Foundation Literary Award. In 1928 he married Nina Yolande Dubois, daughter of WEB Dubois who lived in France. In 1930 he divorced his wife and began to concentrate more on his writing career. (Lawlor 2-3). By 1936 he was known as the voice of the Harlem Ressidance. "In John Keats's poet, in the spring" Cullen describes the excitement he feels as he witnesses the arrival of spring; Cullen pays homage to John Keats, the immortal poet whose writings reveal an extraordinary sensitivity capable of awakening the earth and the human spirit. In "And Yet I Wonder" Cullen explores the problem of justifying God's ways to mankind. Yet I Wonder opens with a declaration of faith in the ways of God, and his faith is supported through the… middle of the paper… strong legacy of his poetry. A posthumous collection of Cullen's poems was published in 1947, On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen. His legacy also includes public schools named after the poet, as well as the 135th Street Branch library in Harlem that was renamed the Countee Cullen Library. After a period of hibernation, scholars have paid more attention to Cullen's life and writings, and in 2012 a biography of Cullen, And Bid Him Sing, by Charles Molesworth (cullen5-6) was published. Works Cited Beetz, Kirk H, ed. Count Cullen. Vol5. Vokomis; 1991.“Cullen, Countee” Biographies of Britannica. Encyclopedia britamia 2014.Wed.6 May.2014Cullen, Countee. The new criterion. April 2013 24-27Cullen, Countee “searching for online information about world books. World book, 2014 Wednesday May 6, 2014.William T Lawlor.NY sale m print, 2006