# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-louis-gates-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:01:31.749Z

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name: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr."
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description: "Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname \"Skip\", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump