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Excerpt from Leçons sur l'Homme, Sa Place dans la Création Et dans l'Histoire de la Terre
Des leçons publiques, professées pendant l'hiver 1862 - 63, à Neuchâtel et 'a la Chaux-de - Fond,' et en à Genève, sont résumées dans ce livre.
J'ai voulu réunir, dans un ensemble, des études poursuivies depuis longtemps, abandonnées quelque fois momentanément, mais reprises toujours avec un intérêt croissant.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created fourteen documentary films. Having written for such leading publications as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates now serves as chairman of the daily online magazine The Root and is editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees from institutions the world over.
Summary
Richard Wright
(1908 -- 1960)
Of the numerous achievements that distinguish Richard Wright's place in the history of American literature, perhaps none is more important than the fact that he was the first African-American writer to sustain himself professionally from his writings alone. Primarily through the success of
Native Sonand
Black Boy, Wright was able to support, for two decades, a comfortable life for himself and his family in Paris. He also became, with the publication of
Native Sonalone, the first internationally celebrated Black American author. If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of
Native Son,his first and most successful novel.
-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
