Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alternate names: Henry Louis Gates; Skip Gates; Gates, Henry, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Title: Jr
Born: 16 September 1950
Bio: Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. - Wikipedia