| Date of Birth | 16-September-1949 | |
| Place of Birth |
Georgetown (Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Also know as | John Rickford | |
| Profession | Professor | |
| John Russell Rickford is an American academic and author. His book Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, which he wrote together with his son, Russell J. Rickford, won the American Book Award in 2000. Rickford is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University's Department of Linguistics and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he has taught since 1980. | ||
Awards by John R. Rickford |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by John R. Rickford. | ||
2000
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