The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape (Penguin Classics)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at Cornell University, and also tenured at Yale, Duke, and Harvard, where he was appointed W.E.B. DuBois professor of humanities in 1991. Professor Gates is the author ofFigures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self, Wonders of the African World, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars, andColored People: A Memoir. With Cornel West, he co-wroteThe African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our CountryandThe Future of the Race. He is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed edition of Our Nig, an annotated reprint of Harriet E. Wilson’s 1859 novel,The Slave’s Narrative(with the late Charles T. Davis),Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Six Women’s Slave Narratives, andIn the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize.