Addison Gayle
Addison Gayle, Jr. (June 2, 1932 – October 3, 1991) was an American professor,[1] literary critic,[2] and author in New York City. He advocated for a Black aesthetic.[3]
Biography
Gayle was born in Newport News, Virginia. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1965 with a B.A. and received an M.A. in English from UCLA a year later.[4] He taught English at Bernard M. Baruch College until his death in October 1991.[3]
He wrote that a Black aesthetic can be "a means of helping Black people out of the polluted mainstream of Americanism".[5]
Gayle edited Black Expression: Essays by and about Black Americans in the Creative Arts published by Weybright & Talley in 1969 and Bondage, Freedom and Beyond: The Prose of Black America, published by Doubleday in Garden City, New York, 1970.
On September 12, 1965, Gayle married Rosalie Norwood, who was a lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles, when they met. They divorced in 1971.
Bibliography
- The Black Situation (1970)
- The Black aesthetic (1971)
- Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1971)
- Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond (1971)
- Claude McKay: The Black Poet at War (1972)
- The way of the new world (1975)
- Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son
- Wayward Child: A Personal Odyssey (1977)
References
- ^ Blau, Eleanor (October 5, 1991). "Addison Gayle Jr., Literary Critic, Is Dead at 59". Archives. New York Times. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Norment, Nathaniel (2005). "Addison Gayle, Jr.: "The Consummate Black Critic" 1932–1991". CLA Journal. 48 (4). College Language Association: 353–386. ISSN 0007-8549. JSTOR 44325280.
- ^ a b "Addison, Jr. Gayle (1932–1991) • BlackPast". BlackPast. March 4, 2010.
- ^ Bader, Philip (May 14, 2014). African-American Writers. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438107837.
- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (December 1, 1974). "Black World/Negro Digest". Johnson Publishing Company.
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