William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878-1962) was a writer, poet and literary critic, born in Boston, Mass. From 1906 to 1929 he contributed to the Boston Evening Transcript, eventually becoming its literary editor. He also wrote articles, reviews and poetry for many other periodicals and journals, including Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and the New Republic. In 1918 he was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1935, he assumed a professorship of creative literature at Atlanta University. In 1946 he, his wife, Emma Kelly, and their seven children moved to Sugar Hill, a neighbourhood in Harlem, New York, where Braithwaite continued to write and publish poetry, essays and anthologies.