James Emanuel (June 15, 1921 – September 28, 2013) is the author of 13 books of poems, including Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958—1989 (Lotus Press, 1989), a memoir, The Force and the Reckoning (Lotus Press, 2001), and he co-edited with Theodore Gross the highly-acclaimed anthology Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America (Free Press, 1968). Emanuel was educated at Howard University, New York University, and Columbia University, earning a PhD from the latter. He taught at the City College of New York, the University of Toulouse, the University of Grenoble, and the University of Warsaw.
