Benjamin Brawley

Benjamin Griffith Brawley (April 22, 1882 - February 1, 1939) was a prominent African American author and educator. He studied at Atlanta Baptist College, the University of Chicago, and Harvard, and he taught at Atlanta Baptist College, Howard UniversityThe Negro Literature and Art (1910); A Short History of the American Negro (1919); A Short History of the English Drama (1921); A Social History of the American Negro (1921); A New Survey of English Literature (1925).