Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration & Bolinga Center Anniversary
Speaker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor of The Bondwoman's Narrative
January 17, 2003

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was born and raised in West Virginia. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a degree in history and was a London correspondent for Time magazine before receiving his Ph.D. in English from Cambridge University. He writes frequently for such publications as Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice; his books include Figures in Black, The Signifying Monkey (for which he received an American Book Award), and Loose Cannons.