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Bernice Love Wiggins

1897–1936

United States

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Bernice Love Wiggins (also Bernice Love Clay, March 4, 1897 – January 27, 1936) was an African-American poet writing during the Harlem Renaissance period. Her work was published in the El Paso Herald, the Chicago Defender, the Houston Informer, and other newspapers across Texas. Her one volume of poems, Tuneful Tales, was published in 1925.

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