Michel Fabre

Michel J. Fabre (1933-2007) was a French scholar and professor emeritus at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), where he directed a Ph.D. program and research center in African American studies and post-colonial literatures from 1975 to 1993.Scholar & Feminist Online, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. He authored over twenty volumes on black American literature, slavery, and writers like Richard Wright and Chester Himes, with notable works including The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright (1973, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner), From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (1992), and The Several Lives of Chester Himes (1998), and served as president of the Cercle d’Études Afro-Américaines.IdRef, UI Press.