James de Jongh

Bio

(1942-2023) Scholar, playwright. James de Jongh was born in Charlotte Amalie, U. S. Virgin Islands, and died in the Bronx, New York.

Full Name

James de Jongh

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline

1942

James Laurence de Jongh was born in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, on September 23, 1942.

1970

Mr. de Jongh began teaching at City University of New York in 1970.

1975

Hail Hail the Gangs!

Play written with Charles Cleveland.

1978

Do Lord Remember Me

Play.

1983

Mr. de Jongh received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1983.

1990

Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination
Cambridge University Press
0521326206 / 978-0521326209
Nonfiction.

2023

Mr. de Jongh lived in the Bronx, New York.

2023

James de Jongh died in the Bronx, New York, on May 5, 2023.

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