Fabre, Michel

Michel and Genevieve Fabre founded the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of Paris, and have been leading scholars of African American culture in France. Michel Fabre is the foremost biographer of Richard Wright, and intimately fimiliar with the Wright family and with African American artists, writers, and musicians throughout Europe. Genevieve Fabre is a scholar of African-American theater and literature, and co-chaired the first Harvard University Du Bois Institute Working Group, "History and Memory in Afro-American Culture," and edited an important book by the title that has been seminal in "memory studies" in the field.

From the description of Michel Fabre archives of African American arts and letters, 1910-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79463049