Awards and Honors
Early won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for essay collection The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture.
He has been nominated for the Grammy Award Best Album Notes twice in 2001 for Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story and in 2002 for Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From The Harlem Renaissance.
On September 5, 2007, Professor Early was honored by Washington University with the unveiling of a portrait painted by Jamie Adams which hangs in the Journals Reading Room of the university's Olin Library.
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