William Leake Andrews

William Leake Andrews (born September 27, 1946)^[1] is an American Professor Emeritus of English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill^[2] and a scholar of early African-American literature. With books such as To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760–1865 (1986), Andrews helped establish the academic study of African-American literature in the late twentieth century.^[3] In 2017, Andrews received the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature from the Modern Language Association.^[2]