Background

Verner Mitchell was born on October 9, 1957, in Thomasville, Georgia, United States; the son of W. J., Sr. and Mary F. Mitchell.

Education

In 1979 Verner Mitchell received a Bachelor of Science from US Air Force Academy. Six years later he got a Master of Arts from Colorado State University. Verner also holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University.

Career

Mitchell began his career as a career officer at U.S. Air Force in 1979, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1999. In 1985 Verner was appointed as an instructor, and then as an associate professor at Air Force Academy.

Currently, Verner D. Mitchell is a professor of English at the University of Memphis. He is the editor of This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance and co-author of four subsequent books on women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. His work has appeared in Studies in American Culture, African American Review, American Literary History, and other journals.

Achievements

• Verner Mitchell co-authored several books on women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, which are known all over the world.

Works

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  • Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism

    (Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography of Works an...)

    2013
  • Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

    (In Encyclopedia of the Blacks Arts Movement, Verner D. Mi...)

    2019
  • Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance 2011
  • This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance 2000
  • Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman 2008

Membership

Verner D. Mitchell is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, College Language Association and Langston Hughes Society.

Interests

• reading, exercising, gardening

Connections

Verner Mitchell married Veronica R. Kennon, a social worker, on July 24, 1991. They have two children - Jared D. and Courtney M.

Mother:

Mary F. Mitchell

Spouse:

Veronica R. Kennon

child:

Jared D. Mitchell

child:

Courtney M. Mitchell