Henry Louis Gates Jr. is rereading “Uncle Remus,’’ to see if it has lasting cultural value.
(JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Writer, academic
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is rereading “Uncle Remus,’’ to see if it has lasting cultural value.
(JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., author, New Yorker contributor, Harvard professor, PBS star, has come a long way from Piedmont, W.Va., But the small paper-mill town, where “there were 386 black people and one Jewish family’’ in the Irish-Italian town, is still very much on Gates’ mind for many reasons, one being that’s where he became a bibliophile.
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