Jay Saunders Redding
(b. 1906) Writer
Redding was bom in Wilmington, Delaware, and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, where he earned his B.A. and M.A. He studied Elizabethan drama at Columbia University and taught at Morehouse College, Hampton Institute, and Cornell University. Redding received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship, and has produced fiction, historical stories, and a volume of literary criticism. Some of his works include To Make A Poet Black (1939), No Day of Triumph (1942), Stranger and Alone (1950), They Came In Chains: Americans from Africa (1958), On Being Negro in America, and The Negro (1967).
Source
Baker, Houston A. Jr. Black Literature in America. New York: McGraw-HiD Book Company, 1971.439.
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