W. Ralph Eubanks

Warren Ralph Eubanks Jr. (born June 25, 1957) is an American author, essayist, journalist, professor, and public speaker. His work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. As of May 2021, he was a Radcliffe Institute fellow at Harvard University.

From 1995 until May 2013 he was the Director of Publishing of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In June 2013, he became the editor of the ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' at the University of Virginia. He has served as an advisor and adjunct professor on staff at the University of Virginia and George Mason University.

In 2007, he was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, in recognition of his published memoir, ''Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past'', which ''Washington Post'' literary critic Jonathan Yardley named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. Provided by Wikipedia