Author | Jeffrey C. Stewart |
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Genre | Non-fiction, biography, African-American history |
Published | 2018, Oxford University Press |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award |
ISBN | 978-0195089578 |
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke is a 2018 biography of Alain LeRoy Locke written by historian Jeffrey C. Stewart.[1][2] The biography examines the life of Locke, an African-American activist and scholar who mentored many African-American intellectuals and writers[3] and whom many see as the "father" of the Harlem Renaissance.[4][5] Published by Oxford University Press, The New Negro won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[6]