J. Saunders Redding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

J. Saunders Redding

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1906

Place of Birth: Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1988

Profession: historian, educator, critic, literary

Zodiac Sign: Libra

J.
Saunders Redding was an African American author and educator.Born October 13, 1906 in Wilmington, Delaware, Redding wrote such books as To Make a Poet Black (1939), an autobiography, No Day of Triumph (1944), Stranger and Alone (1950), They Came in Chains (1950), An American in India (1954), and Cavalcade (1970), an African American literature anthology he edited with A.
P.
Davis.In 1970, Redding became the first African American professor at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and then retired in 1975.Redding died on March 5, 1988 in Ithaca, New York at age 81.