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Her mother is the literary agent Lynn Nesbit, her father the Yale Drama School professor, author, and critic Richard Gilman. She attended The Brearley School from first through twelfth grade, and earned a B.A. summa cum laude and with exceptional distinction from Yale University, where she majored in English, in 1993. She also did her master's ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", [1] [2] 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.
In 1949, Gilman married painter Esther Morgenstern. [2] In 1966, Gilman married Lynn Nesbit, a literary agent, [2] (who would go on to co-found the literary agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates with Morton L. Janklow), In 1992, Gilman married Japanese scholar, Yasuko Shiojiri, who would translate his books into Japanese. [2]
In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the actress' appearance on the Jan. 28 episode of Finding Your Roots, Stone, 66, is at a loss for words when host Henry Louis Gates Jr. reveals that, on her paternal ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...
Jennifer Gates and her husband Nayel Nassar officially have a 2-year-old on their hands!. In a joint post shared to Instagram Monday, Feb. 10, the proud parents celebrated their first-born turning ...
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson.First published in 1859, [1] it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [2] and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates (London: Allison & Busby, 1984). [3]
Related: Bill Gates Talks Working with Daughter Phoebe on His New Netflix Show: 'Fun to See Her Energy' (Exclusive) The “proud papa” admitted that initially he was “a little worried about ...