Awards & Winners

Gerald Early

Date of Birth 21-April-1952
Place of Birth Philadelphia
(Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Gerald L. Early
Profession Writer, Professor, Author
Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic. He is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also served as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, and The War. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Fresh Air. His essays have appeared in numerous editions of Best American Essays series. He writes on topics as diverse as American literature, the Korean War, African American culture, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz, prizefighting, Motown, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.

Awards by Gerald Early

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gerald Early.

1994


National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Honored for : The Culture of Bruising

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism The Culture of Bruising

1988


Whiting Writers' Award
(Nonfiction)