Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, historian, and professor born in 1950. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Widely recognized for his work in African-American literature, he has published extensively on the integration of these works into the Western canon and serves as a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.