Michel Fabre

Michel J. Fabre was professor emeritus at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) where he directed a Ph. D program and a Research center in African American studies and post-colonial literatures from 1975 to 1993. He served as president of the Cercle d’Etudes Afro-Américaines. He has published, edited, or translated over twenty volumes dealing with black America, slavery, African American literature and its reception abroad and also with writers Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Claude McKay, Chinua Achebe, Wilson Harris, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Margaret Lawrence. His best-known books are The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright (1973), From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (1992), and The Several Lives of Chester Himes (in collaboration with Ed Margolies, 1998).