The Souls of Black Folk


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION

The Editors

Since 1992, HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. has been the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of Afro-American studies at Harvard University. He has been the editor of such collections as Reading Black, Reading Feminist and The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Professor Gates edited the forty-volume Schomberg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, the thirty-volume African American Women Writers 1910-1940, and was the series editor for the complete works of Zora Neale Hurston. He is the author of The Signifying Monkey, which received the American Book Award, Figures in Black, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Colored People, a memoir, and other books. A winner of the MacArthur Prize and a staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TERRI HUME OLIVER is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. The title of her dissertation is The Ends of Childhood: An American Rhetoric of Minority. She has published reference entries on Cynthia Ozick, Susan Cheever, and Robert Beck, and was a research assistant for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.

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