Arnold Rampersad
Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities -Department of English

Arnold Rampersad has just published a major biography of the novelist Ralph Ellison. His other books include The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. DuBois; The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols.); Days of Grace: A Memoir, co-authored with the lateArthur Ashe; and Jackie Robinson: A Biography.  In addition, he has edited several volumes including Collected Poems of Langston Hughes; the Library of America edition of works by Richard Wright, with revised individual editions of Native Son and Black Boy; and (as co-editor with Deborah McDowell) Slavery and the Literary Imagination. He was also co-editor, with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, of the Race and American Culture book series published by Oxford University Press.  In 1991 he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship.  An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society , he served from 2003 to 2006 as senior associate dean for the Humanities at Stanford.

Monday, May 21, 2007, 7 p.m.
The Stanford Writing Center – Basement of Margaret Jacks Hall