He won fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation (1991-1996), the J.S. Winner in 1986 of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography and autobiography, he was later a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and, in 2007, the National Book Award in non-fiction prose for his biography of Ralph Ellison. His edited volumes include The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Complete Poems of Langston Hughes and, as co-editor, Selected Letters of Langston Hughes.įrom 2003 to 2006 he served as Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities at Stanford. Du Bois The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols.) Days of Grace: A Memoir, co-authored with Arthur Ashe Jackie Robinson: A Biography and Ralph Ellison: A Biography. His books include The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. He also taught at the University of Virginia, Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton. in English and American Literature at Harvard. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, he earned his Ph.D. Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Stanford University.
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