Awards & Winners

Henry Louis Gates

Date of Birth 16-September-1950
Place of Birth Keyser
(Mineral County, West Virginia, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Profession Author, Essayist, Writer, Editor, Literary critic, Historian, Documentary Filmmaker, Professor
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Literary scholar, filmmaker, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created thirteen documentary films and film series, including "Wonders of the African World", "African American Lives", "Black in Latin America", and "Finding Your Roots", now in its second season on PBS. His six-part PBS documentary series, "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" earned the 2013 Peabody Award and NAACP Image Award. Having written for such leading publications as "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", and "Time", Professor Gates serves as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com and oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center. Professor Gates’s latest book is "Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series", released by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014.

Awards by Henry Louis Gates

Check all the awards nominated and won by Henry Louis Gates.

2014


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form
Honored for : The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

2010


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction
Honored for : In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
(Crown)

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Crown

1989


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : Collected Black Women's Narratives
American Book Awards
Honored for : The Signifying Monkey