This biography of Alain Locke exists because of the inspiration of a community of scholars, mentors, and friends, including Eleanor W. Traylor, E. Curmie Price, Monifa Love Asante, Anissa Ryan Stewart, Fath Davis Ruffins, Marta Reid Stewart, Julie Thacker, Gilbert Morris, Paula Lieberman, Hugo Hopping, Prudence Cumberbatch, Lois Mailou Jones, Richard Long, Carl Faber Jr., Dr. Phyllis Daen, Lawrence Lee Jones, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Patricia Hills, Claudia Tate, Richard Powell, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rose Cherubin, Laurie Monahan, Renate Reiss, Ethelbert Miller, John S. Wright, Paul Coates, Kellie Jones, Joellen El Bashir, Arthur Fauset, Clifford L. Muse, Richard Edward Jenkins III, Melvin Oliver, Vincent Johnson, Harold Lewis, Doxey Wilkerson, Arthur Davis, Sterling Brown, Sabrina Vellucci, Marion Deshmukh, Wilburn Williams, William Banner, Charles Prudhomme, Linda Heywood, Shirley Moody-Turner, Jerry G. Watts, Robin Kelly, Stephanie Batiste, Paul Ruffins, Suzanne Preston Blier, Steven Nelson, Anna Scacchi, Meaghan Alston, Roberto Strongman, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Lowery Stokes Sims, Ossie Davis, Steven Jones, Mark D. Naison, Sass Smith, Leroy Odinga Perry, Marissa Parham, Joyce Owens, Jonathan Holloway, Nell Painter, Esme Bhan, David Musto, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Peter Fitzsimmons, Arcilla Stahl, Michelle Huneven, Bruce Johnston, Lizabeth Cohen, Jamaica Kincaid, Stanley Crouch, Samella Lewis, Stephen Goldsmith, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Helen Vendler, Gordon Teskey, Thomas Richards, Cristina Giorcelli, Azfar Hussain, Werner Sollors, Christa Clarke, Jacqueline Goggin, Bill Pencak, Maurice Natanson, Gerald Early, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Kimberly Camp, Chela Sandoval, Kathryn Coney, Alan Trachtenberg, Aida Hurtado, Isaac Julien, Camara Dia Holloway, Alvia Wardlaw, Nathan A. Scott, John Hope Franklin, A’Lelia Bundles, Robert Farris Thompson, Kobena Mercer, Judith Green, George Lipsitz, Claudine Michel, David Levering Lewis, Aida Hurtado, Ellen Cummings, Michael Winston, Thomas C. Battle, Donna M. Wells, David Driskell, Clifford Muse, Clarence Walker, Christopher McAuley, Cornel West, Jane Duran, Corey Blechman, Samella Lewis, Arnold Rampersad, Lydia Balian, Ashley Champayne, Charlotte Becker, Robert A. Hill, Francille Wilson, W. Tjark Reiss, and many others. Special thanks go to my editor, Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press, for her unstinting support, and my agent, Marie Brown, for her guidance and fealty. I also thank the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Beinecke Library at Yale University, the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson Center, George Mason University, the Getty Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Terra Foundation, and the University of California at Santa Barbara for support over many years of this project.