Henry Louis Gates Jr.
American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual. He currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Gates has been host for four seasons of the series Finding Your Roots on PBS.[1]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. | |
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.jpg) Gates with his Peabody Award for his documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | |
| Born | September 16, 1950 Keyser, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, documentary filmmaker, essayist, literary critic, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (B.A.) Clare College, Cambridge (Ph.D.) |
| Genre | Essay, history, literature |
| Subject | African American Studies |
| Notable works | The Signifying Monkey |
| Spouse |
Sharon Lynn Adams
(m. 1979; div. 1999) |
| Children | 2 |
References
change- ↑ Maya Jaggi (July 6, 2002). "Henry the first". The Guardian. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
Other websites
change- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard Faculty webpage
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. on IMDb
- The Root
- Wonders of the African World Program with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – PBS
- "Henry Louis Gates Jr. to continue at Harvard". Harvard Gazette. December 5, 2002. Archived from the original on January 1, 2003. Retrieved May 12, 2017. (after Cornel West and K.A. Appiah left for Princeton)
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