Jean toomer was a writer and a philosopher. He was born on Dec 26, 1894. Toomer was born in Washington, D.C. He was the son of Nathan Toomer who was a planter, and his mother was Nina Pinchback who was the daughter of former governor Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback. Even though Toomer had European African bloodlines people would easily pass him as white. Nathan Toomer abandon his family in 1895, which forced Nina and her son Jean Toomer to live with her father in Washington, D.C. Jeans grandparents called him Eugene Pinchback even though his name wasn't legally changed. In school Jean was known by the name Eugene Pincback Toomer. While Toomer was living in Washington D.C. he lived in a predominantly white neighborhood but also attended an all black elementary school. After his mother's remarriage in 1906, he and his family moved to New Rochelle, New York, where they also lived in a predominantly white neighborhood but this time he attended an all white school. When his mother died three years later he moved back to Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar high school which was an all black school. Toomer graduated from Dunbar high school in 1914. After high school Toomer went on to college to study agriculture, physical educated, psychology, and literature. He attended several colleges such as University of Wisconsin, Massachusetts College of agriculture, American college of physical training, the city college of New York, and the New York University. During his years of college he was preparing to become a writer. He attended off campus lectures on naturalism, atheism, psychology, evolution & socialism and many other literary works. Between 1918 and 1923 Toomer began writing short stories and poems.
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