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(1932-1991) Critic. Addison Gayle, Jr. was born in Newport News, Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Addison Gayle Jr

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Gayle served six months in the United States Air Force; part of this time based in Geneva, New York.

1932

BIRTH

Addison Gayle, Jr. was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1932.

1965

OTHER

Gayle received a bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1965.

1966

OTHER

Gayle taught at Baruch College from 1969 until 1991, and at the City College of New York from 1966 until 1969, in Manhattan, New York.

1969

LITWORK

(Editor) Black Expression: Essays By And About Black Americans In The Creative Arts
Weybright & Talley.

Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

The Black Situation
Horizon.

Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

(Editor) Bondage, Freedom And Beyond: The Prose Of Black America
Doubleday, Garden City, New York.

Nonfiction.

1971

LITWORK

Oak And Ivy: A Biography Of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Doubleday.

Biography.

1971

LITWORK

(Editor) The Black Aesthetic
Doubleday.

Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

Claude McKay: The Black Poet At War
Broadside Press.

Biography.

1975

LITWORK

The Way Of The New World: The Black Novel In America
Doubleday.

Nonfiction.

1977

LITWORK

Wayward Child: A Personal Odyssey
Anchor Press/Doubleday

Autobiography.

1980

LITWORK

Richard Wright: Ordeal Of A Native Son
Doubleday.

Biography.

1991

DEATH

Addison Gayle, Jr. died in Manhattan, New York, in 1991.

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