Background
DuBois was born in Saint Augustine, Florida, in 1903, to parents Virginia Markel DuBois and William Henry Thompson DuBois.
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William DuBois
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He graduated from Columbia University in 1925 with a degree in journalism and upon graduation went to work at The New York Times in 1926.
Career
He went on to become an editor for the New York Times Book Review where he wrote reviews and articles DuBois retired from The Times in 1973. DuBois wrote the play Haiti (1938) for the Federal Theatre Project.
The play was produced by the Negro Theatre Unit and presented at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem and toured to Boston.
The play"s authorship has often been misattributed to the black scholar West. East. B. Du Bois because of the similarity of names. His novels include The Island in the Square (1947), set in New York City in the 1920s.
A Season to Beware (1956), about the worlds of journalism and publishing, and The Falcon"s Shadow (1958), about the travails of the theater. He also worked as a silent writer with Frank G. Slaughter on 27 of his historical novels.
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United States