Emanuel, James A.

African-American author and Professor of American and English literature at the City College of New York.

From the description of Papers, 1967-1981. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43738548

Poet and educator. Born 1921.

From the description of James A. Emanuel papers, 1922-1995 (bulk 1960-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983705

Biographical Note

• 1921, June 15: Born, Alliance, Nebr.
• 1942 - 1944 : Confidential secretary to General Benjamin O. Davis, Assistant Inspector General, United States Army
• 1944 - 1946 : Staff sergeant, 93rd Infantry Division, United States Army
• 1950: B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C. Married Mattie Etha Johnson (divorced 1974)
• 1953: M.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
• 1954 - 1956 : Taught at Harlem YWCA Business School, New York, N.Y.
• 1957 - 1983 : Instructor of English (1957-1964), assistant professor (1965-1969), associate professor (1970-1972), and professor (1973-1983), City College of the City University of New York, New York, N.Y.
• 1962: Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1966: Developed and taught first course in African-American poetry at City College of the City University of New York, New York, N.Y. Defeated in election for seat on board of education, Mount Vernon, N.Y.
• 1967: Published Langston Hughes (New York: Twayne. 192 pp.)
• 1968: Published Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America with Theodore L. Gross (New York: Free Press. 604 pp.) Published The Treehouse and Other Poems (Detroit: Broadside Press. 24 pp.)
• 1968 - 1969 : Fulbright professor, University of Grenoble, France
• 1970: Published Panther Man (Detroit: Broadside Press. 32 pp.)
• 1971 - 1973 : Visiting professor, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
• 1972: Published How I Write/2 with MacKinlay Kantor and Lawrence Osgood (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 256 pp.) Met Marie-France Bertrand (née Plassard) in France
• 1975 - 1976 : Fulbright professorship, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
• 1978: Published Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems (Detroit: Lotus Press. 76 pp.)
• 1980: Published A Chisel in the Dark: Poems Selected and New (Detroit: Lotus Press. 73 pp.)
• 1980 - 1981 : Visiting professor, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
• 1983: Published A Poet's Mind (New York: Regents. 85pp.) Published The Broken Bowl: New and Uncollected Poems (Detroit: Lotus Press. 85 pp.)
• 1984: Retired; established residence in France
• 1987: Published Deadly James and Other Poems (Detroit: Lotus Press. 82 pp.)
• 1991: Published Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Detroit: Lotus Press. 396 pp.)
• 1992: Published De la rage au coeur with Jean Migrenne and Michel Fabre (Thaon, France: Amiot/Lenganey. 173 pp.)

From the guide to the James A. Emanuel Papers, 1922-1995, (bulk 1960-1995), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)