Biography:

Arnold Rampersad is a biographer, literary critic, and academic. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. Rampersad was a Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University from 1974 to 1983 before resigning to accept a position at Rutgers University.

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Pictured: Arnold Rampersad. Born 13 November 1941 (age 78), Trinidad and Tobago.

Notable Publications:

• The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. DuBois (1976)
• The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols., 1986, 1988)
• Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993), co-authored with Arthur Ashe
• Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997)
• Edited several volumes including Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
• Edited the Library of America edition (2 vols.) of works by Richard Wright, with revised individual editions of Native Son and Black Boy
• (as co-editor with Deborah McDowell) edited Slavery and the Literary Imagination
• Co-editor with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, of the Race and American Culture book series published by Oxford University Press
• Ralph Ellison: A Biography (2007)

Notable Awards:

• From 1991 to 1996 he held a MacArthur Foundation fellowship
• Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
• 2010 Recipient of the National Humanities Medal