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Gates writer-in-residence at Shepherd University
Piedmont native also receives Appalachian Heritage Writers Award
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., author, educator, scholar, editor, literary critic and intellectual, was on the Shepherd University campus recently as its Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence.
On Oct. 3, Gates spoke before a standing-room-only audience in the university's Frank Theater on "Speaking of Race and Appalachia" and was presented with the Appalachian Heritage Writers Award.