Arnold Rampersad ’67, ’68, ’95 (Hon.)

Arnold Rampersad has made it his life’s work to tell the African-American story through the lens of a biography. His biographies include “The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois,” “The Life of Langston Hughes,” and “Jackie Robinson: A Biography, and Ralph Ellison: A Biography.” Rampersad grew up in Trinidad. After earning his bachelor’s and master’s from BGSU, he earned a doctorate in English and American literature from Harvard.