Poetic Obituaries: [Rudolph Byrd] had just finished writing

a series of lectures about race and sexuality to be presented at Harvard University. He was writing a biography of author Ernest Gaines, developing a monograph of the early novels of Alice Walker and collaborating with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on an anthology of African-American poetry.

from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Rudolph Byrd, 58: A prolific scholar of African-American culture

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