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Mar 22, 1943 Louisville, Kentucky, United States 81 years old
American scholar
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About Houston A. Baker Jr.
- Houston Alfred Baker Jr.
- (born March 22, 1943) is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature and Distinguished University Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
- Baker served as president of the Modern Language Association, editor of the journal American Literature, and has authored several books, including The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, and Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing.
- Baker was included in the 2006 textbook Fifty Key Literary Theorists, by Richard J.
- Lane.
