Inauguration of the David Levering Lewis Biography Fellowship on the African Diaspora

The Lewis Fellowship is funded by a $1,000,000 gift from Professor Lewis, matched by another million from the Leon Levy Foundation. 

The Leon Levy Center for Biography is pleased to inaugurate the David Levering Lewis Biography Fellowship on the African Diaspora.

David Levering Lewis is professor emeritus of history at New York University. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Lewis received the Pulitzer Prize for each volume of his two-volume biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. He is the author of eleven books. Lewis has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in New York City.

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