Background
Yoder, Lauren Wayne was born on March 9, 1943 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of Lauren Aquilla and Nina Viola Yoder.
Yoder, Lauren Wayne was born on March 9, 1943 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of Lauren Aquilla and Nina Viola Yoder.
Bachelor, Eastern Mennonite College, 1964. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1973.
Teacher Ecole Secondaire Pedagogique, Kikwit, Republic of the Congo, 1966—1968. Professor French, director Center Special Studies Davidson College. Fulbright lecturer United States Information Agency, Paris, 1971—1972, Libreville, Gabon, 1980—1981.
Participant National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminar Miami, Florida, 1979, Lawrence, Kansas, 1991, National Endowment of the Humanities Institute, Binghamton, New York, 1993. Country director Burundi Mennonite Central Committee, since 1995.
Member of Association Caribbean Studies, Caribbean Studies Association, African Literature Association, SAMLA.
Married Rita Suzanne Frey, June 27, 1964. Children: Reinald, Jocelyn.