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African-American History
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
One of the most recognized literary scholars, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
was born in 1950. Presently serving as chair of the Afro-American Studies
Department at Harvard University,
Gates is also the Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute of African-American
Research.
Gates first came to the attention of the literary world when he established
Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859)
as the first novel published in the United States by an African American.
Gates wrote his memoir; Colored People, in 1994 and his work has been
published in the New York Times and the New Republic.
Gates has also served as general editor for the Schomburg Library of
Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, and as general editor for the Norton
Anthology of African-American Literature.
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