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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. (September 2, 1895- February 3, 1919) was an American playwright, author and poet from Louisville, Kentucky most remembered for his posthumously published one-act play ''On The Fields of France'' in addition to numerous volumes of poetry.〔Hatch, James V. Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 (African American Life Series), Wayne State University Press, 1996, pg.21-22〕
==Personal life==
Cotter Jr. was born and lived the formative years of his life in Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended Central High School until his graduation in 1911. His father, Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. a noted African-American playwright in his own regard, was the principal when Cotter Jr. graduated.〔Hill, Anthony D. Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, 2008, pg. 118〕 Cotter subsequently attended Fisk University in Nashville, TN before contracting tuberculosis, a disease that would claim the life of his sister, Florence Olivia, in 1914.〔Aberjhani., Sandra L. West. Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Renaissance, Infobase Publishing, 2003, pg. 71〕 After falling ill, Cotter Jr. returned to Louisville and began work as a journalist for the ''Leader''. Cotter Jr. avoided mimicking the style of his father and instead "experimented with free and, in ''Rain Music'', rhythmic styles.〔 His father was instrumental in promoting his son's work after his death in 1920 from tuberculosis.〔Finkleman, Paul and Wintz, Cary D. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, 2012〕 He was said by many to have had the potential to be the greatest poet of his generation.〔Wallace Thurman, "Negro Poets and Their Poetry," ''The Bookman'', July 1928〕
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