Henry Louis Gates Jr.

About The Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American research at Harvard University. Among his many books are Colored People: A Memoir and Wonders of the African World. He won an American Book Award in 1989 for The Signifying Monkey.

Books by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy

A Civil War Story

By Romare Bearden
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Illustrated by Romare Bearden / Read by Maya Angelou
A brave drummer boy marches along with Union soldiers in this powerful picture book.
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The African-American Century

How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

By Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West
One hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans of the twentieth century.
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