Arnold Rampersad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetArnold Rampersad
American academic
Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1941
Place of Birth: Trinidad and Tobago
Profession: biographer
Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Arnold Rampersad
- Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer and literary critic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965.
- The first volume (1986) of his Life of Langston Hughes was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and his Ralph Ellison: A Biography was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award.Also an academic, Rampersad is currently Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.
- He was Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities from January 2004 to August 2006.
- Professor Rampersad was a member of the Stanford English Department from 1974 to 1983, before accepting a position at Rutgers University.
- Since then he taught there and at Columbia and Princeton before returning to Stanford in 1998. Rampersad graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in English (1967 and 1968).
- In 1973 he earned a Ph.D from Harvard University, his dissertation being subsequently published as the intellectual biography The Art and Imagination of W.
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- DuBois.Rampersad's teaching covers such areas as 19th- and 20th-century American literature; the literature of the American South; American and African-American autobiography; race and American literature; and the Harlem Renaissance.
- From 1991 to 1996, he held a MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellowship.
- He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.
- In 2007, his biography of Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), which he had worked on for eight years, was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Award.
- In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and in 2012 was the recipient of the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization.
- Also in 2012, he won a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.He is also the half-brother of Roger Toussaint, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100.
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