| LC control no. | n 79038429 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Haskins, James, 1941-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Haskins, James S., 1941-2005 Haskins, Jim, 1941-2005 |
| Birth date | 1941-09-19 |
| Death date | 2005-07-06 |
| Place of birth | Demopolis (Ala.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Georgetown University Alabama State University University of New Mexico Staten Island Community College |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Illustrators Editors College teachers Educators Authors |
| Found in | His Diary of a Harlem schoolteacher, 1969. The long struggle, c1976: t.p. (Jim Haskins) Mr. Bojangles, 2000, c1998: t.p. (Jim Haskins) p. 4 of cover (James Haskins; expert on African-American cultural history; prof. at Univ. of Fla.; lives in Gainesville and New York City) New York times WWW site, July 12, 2005 (in obituary published July 11: James Haskins; b. James S. Haskins, Sept. 19, 1941, Demopolis, Ala.; d. Wednesday [July 6, 2005], Manhattan, aged 63; an educator who in seeking to make up for the dearth of children's books on Black historical figures ultimately became one of America's most prolific children's book authors) OCLC, Feb. 8, 2010 (hdgs.: Haskins, James, 1941- ; Haskins, James, 1941-2005; Haskins, James S.; Haskins, James S., 1941- ) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Haskins, James S.; educator, biographer, children's book writer / illustrator, book editor / publisher, essayist, literary critic, diarist; born 19 September 1941 in Demopolis, Alabama, United States; attended Alabama State University, transferred to Georgetown in Washington, D.C., on a scholarship and received B.S. in Psychology in 1960; reenrolled in Alabama State, and earned B.A. in History two years later; master's in Social Psychology from New Mexico University; visiting lecturer at New York's New School for Social Research and SUNY New Paltz, Purdue University; associate professor at Staten Island Community College; in 1994, won the Washington, DC, Children's Book Guild Award; died 06 July 2005 in New York, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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