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Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Date of Birth 22-March-1943
Place of Birth Louisville
(Kentucky, United States of America, Jefferson County, Area code 502)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Houston Baker Jr., Houston A. Baker Jr.
Profession Writer
Houston Alfred Baker Jr. is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature and currently serving as a Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English department. Baker served as president of the Modern Language Association, editor of the journal American Literature, and has authored several books, including The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, and Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing. Baker was included in the 2006 textbook Fifty Key Literary Theorists, by Richard J. Lane.

Awards by Houston A. Baker, Jr.

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2009


American Book Awards
Honored for : Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era