Name
Gerald Early
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1952-04-21 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Biography
Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic, appearing and serving as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and Muhammad Ali. Currently, Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African-American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and his essays have appeared in numerous editions of Best American Essays series. He writes on topics as diverse as American literature, the Korean War, African-American culture, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz, prizefighting, Motown, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.
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- 2021 Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
- 2008 Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed as Self
- 2019 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Self - Writer
- 1996 The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self - Writer / Historian
- 2001 Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel as Self - Cultural Historian
- 2016 Jackie Robinson ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1994 Baseball ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 2010 Baseball: The Tenth Inning ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson ( 2 episodes ) as Self - writer
