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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

1950 - Today

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the 2,406th most popular writer (up from 6,918th in 2019), the 3,475th most popular biography from United States (up from 14,920th in 2019) and the 277th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 2,406 out of 7,302. Before him are Vasily Aksyonov, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Akaki Tsereteli, Pascal Bruckner, Zeki Müren, and Noël Coward. After him are Valery Larbaud, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Karl Gutzkow, Gu Yanwu, Abdulah Sidran, and Gabriel Matzneff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 175. Before him are Roger Hodgson, Randy Quaid, Lindsay Duncan, Thorbjørn Jagland, Anton Ondruš, and Andrzej Szarmach. After him are Richard Dannatt, Neil Jordan, Chuck Schumer, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Rebbie Jackson, and Mary Hopkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 3,475 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Hoffer (1898), Perry King (1948), Crispin Glover (1964), Alicia Rhett (1915), Delbert Mann (1920), and Anne Ramsey (1929). After him are Jennifer Beals (1963), Will Patton (1954), John DeLorean (1925), Lizzie Borden (1860), Whitey Bulger (1929), and Derrick Rose (1988).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 277. Before him are Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Ben Shapiro (1984), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Annie Proulx (1935), Djuna Barnes (1892), and Dorothy Parker (1893). After him are Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Fritz Leiber (1910), James M. Cain (1892), Alex Haley (1921), Ron Kovic (1946), and Forrest J Ackerman (1916).

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