1. Gerald Lyn Early was born on April 21,1952 and is an American essayist and American culture critic.
14 Facts About Gerald Early
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Gerald Early is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African-American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
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Gerald Early served as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and Muhammad Ali.
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Gerald Early is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Fresh Air.
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Gerald Early's essays have appeared in numerous editions of Best American Essays series.
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Gerald Early writes on topics as diverse as American literature, the Korean War, African-American culture, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz, prizefighting, Motown, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.
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Gerald Early developed much of his writing style through involvement with the university newspaper.
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Gerald Early spent six months monitoring gang activities through the Crisis Intervention Network, before resuming his course work at Cornell University, where he eventually earned a doctorate in English literature in 1982.
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Gerald Early landed his first teaching job as an assistant professor of black studies at St Louis's Washington University in 1982.
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Gerald Early steadily rose to a full professorship in both the English and the renamed African and Afro-American studies departments by 1990.
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Gerald Early won a Whiting Award in 1988 for creative nonfiction.
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Gerald Early has been nominated twice for the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.
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On September 5,2007, Gerald Early was honored by Washington University with the unveiling of a portrait painted by Jamie Adams that hangs in the Journals Reading Room of the university's Olin Library.
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In 2013, Gerald Early was inducted into the St Louis Walk of Fame.