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• R. Baxter Miller (Ph.D., Brown 1974), During the last eighteen years, as today, he is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia. His nine books include the inte¬nationally acclaimed Black American Literature and..

  R. Baxter Miller (Ph.D., Brown 1974), During the last eighteen years, as today, he is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia. His nine books include the inte¬nationally acclaimed Black American Literature and Humanism (Kentucky 1981), for which he wrote the historical introduction and final essay, and The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes (1989; Kentucky, paperback 2006), which won the American Book Award for 1991. Much of his published and revised opus appears as The Artistry of Memory (Mellen 2008). His Reference Guide to Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks (G. K. Hall, 1978) is a standard source, and his Black American Poets between Worlds, 1940-1960 (Tennessee 1986) an academic bestseller. Author of The Southern Trace in Black Critical Theory, a commissioned monograph for the Xavier Review Press (December 1991), Miller has recently completed the writing of New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair,” which is now undergoing review at a university press. He is one of the five co-authors and co-editors who completed the Riverside edition, Call and Response: African American Tradition in Literature (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). The editor of “The Short Stories,” Collected Works of Langston Hughes 15 (University of Missouri Press 2002), he was the invited contributor of the biography in the Historical Guide of Langston Hughes (Oxford 2004). The author of scores of chapters, articles, review-essays, and reviews in scholarly journals, he has written a commissioned essay for National Biography (Oxford) and a foreword for classic reprints such as Fire in the Flint by Walter White (Georgia 1995), along with chapter nineteen for American Literary Scholarship (Duke). Less

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