Henry Louis Gates Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, and editor. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries, including the history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the biographical African American Lives and Faces of America. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Net Worth
$13 Million
Date Of Birth
September 16, 1950
Place Of Birth
Piedmont, West Virginia, USA
Profession
Journalist, Literary Scholar, Editor, Author, Professor, Documentary Filmmaker, Teacher, Cultural critic, Historian, Literary critic, Essayist
Education
Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Yale University, University of Cambridge, Yale Law School, Clare College, Cambridge
Nationality
American
Children
Liza Gates, Meggie Gates
Parents
Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Sr.
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Awards
MacArthur Fellowship, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, American Book Awards, Jefferson Lecture, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form
Nominations
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Movies
America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr, Looking for Lincoln, A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TV Shows
Faces of America, African American Lives, Finding Your Roots, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
