James G. Leyburn

James Graham Leyburn (1902–1993) was an American sociologist, author, and academic administrator best known for his ethnographic works The Haitian People (1941), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1942, and The Scotch-Irish: A Social History (1962), along with his memoir The Way We Lived: Durham, 1900–1920 (1989) Anisfield-Wolf, UNC Press. Born in Hedgesville, West Virginia, he taught at Yale and other institutions before serving as dean and professor of sociology at Washington and Lee University from 1947 to 1972, where the main library is named in his honor Open Durham.