Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders), 1906-1988

Born in Wilmington, Delaware. Brown University Class of 1928. Professor of English at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1943 to 1966. Married Esther Elizabeth James. Brother Louis Lorenzo Redding was Brown Class of 1923; sister C. Gwendolyn Redding was Pembroke Class of 1923. Children: Conway Holmes Redding and Lewis A. Redding (both attended Brown University). At different times was Professor of American History at Georgetown University; Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Department of English, Cornell University; Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Research and Publications, 1966 to 1969. Authored: To Make a Poet Black; No Day of Triumph; Stranger and Alone; They Came in Chains; On Being Negro in America. He was known as a specialist in Afro-American Literature.

From the description of Papers, [ca. 1940-1980]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 145430372