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Jongh, James Laurence de was born on September 23, 1942 in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. Son of Percy Leo and Mavis Elizabeth (Bentlage) de Jongh.
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James Laurence de Jongh, American author, educator. award 1985). Member Writers Guild American-East, Harlem Writers Guild (vice president), Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Centers, Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity Association, American Federation television and Radio Artists, Dramatists Guild, Zeta Psi.
Education
Graduate (Fulbright fellow) U. Madrid, 1964-1965.
Career
Intern, Voice of America, United States Information Agency, Washington, 1966. Writer-researcher East. L. Reilly Company, Opinion Research Corporation, New York City, 1966-1967. Assistant to president Baldridge Reading & Study Skills, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1967-1969.
Instructor English, Rutgers University, Newark, 1969-1970.
Professor of English City College of New York, City University of New York, since 1970. Chair faculty senate of City College of New York, 1991, interim director Institute for Research on African Diaspora in Americas and Caribbean, 1997.
Fellow Center for Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981-1982. Playwright: Hail, Hail The Gangs], 1976,Do Lord Remember Maine, 1982, (musical) Jackie Robinson-Play to Win, 1984 (Audelco award 1985).
Author: Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination, 1990, (with Carles Cleveland) City Cool: A Ritual of Belonging, 1978.
New York State Council on Arts CAPS fellow, 1977. National Endowment for Arts fellow, 1978. National Endowment for Humanities summer fellow for coll.tchrs., 1980, fellow for college teachers, 1986.
Recipient Governor"s medal for literature Virgin Islands, 1997.
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Member Writers Guild American-East, Harlem Writers Guild (vice president), Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Centers, Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity Association, American Federation television and Radio Artists, Dramatists Guild, Zeta Psi.
