Nathan Irvin Huggins
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About the Author
Nathan Irvin Huggins was W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University at the time of his death in 1989. He was Professor of History at Columbia when he wrote Black Odyssey and traveled through West Africa and the American South to research it. He is the author of Harlem Renaissance (1971) and Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass (1980) and the editor of Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (1976). He also edited the biographical series, Black Americans of Achievement.
