The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker renowned for rediscovering early African-American novels like Our Nig (1859) and The Bondwoman's Narrative (c. 1853), and authoring seminal works such as The Signifying Monkey (1989, American Book Award winner) and co-editing The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1997). Read more →