Effie Lee Newsome
American poet and columnist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Effie Lee Newsome (1885–1979), born Mary Effie Lee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a Harlem Renaissance writer.[1][2] She mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area.[2] She edited a column in The Crisis from 1925 until 1929, called "The Little Page", where she made drawings and wrote poetry for children and parables about being young and black in the 1920s.[1][2] Newsome also illustrated for children's magazines and edited children's columns for Opportunity.[3]
She also wrote poems for adults, which were included in The Poetry of the Negro (1949).[2] Her only volume of poetry was Gladiola Garden (1940).[3]
In addition to her writing, she worked as a librarian at an elementary school in Wilberforce, Ohio.[3] She attended Wilberforce University, Oberlin College, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania.[3]