March 18, 2005

In Brief

MISIDENTIFICATION: Works by Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins, a 19th-century novelist, will be removed from future editions of a collection of African-American fiction because a Brandeis University graduate student, Holly A. Jackson, has argued persuasively that the author was white. Henry Louis Gates Jr., senior editor of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, published by Oxford University Press, said works by Kelley-Hawkins will be taken out of the next edition,

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