biography
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Braithwaite, William Stanley (Beaumont)
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| lived:
| (1878–1962)
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| biography:
| Writer and editor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The son of West Indian parents, he was not formally educated after high school. As literary critic of the Boston Daily Evening Transcript (1905–29) he helped promote American poetry, and was editor of the influential annual Anthology of Magazine Verse (1913–29). He encouraged many young African-American writers who would contribute to the Harlem Renaissance, and his own work included poetry, criticism, and essays, his Selected Poems being published in 1948. In 1918 he won the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's prestigious Spingarn Medal. He joined the faculty of the first African-American graduate school at Atlanta University (1935–45). |
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