Braithwaite, William Stanley (Beaumont) (1878–1962)

US writer and editor. Literary critic of the Boston Daily Evening Transcript until 1929 and editor of the influential annual Anthology of Magazine Verse, Braithwaite did much to promote American poetry. He encouraged many young African-American writers and wrote much himself. He won the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's prestigious Spingarn Medal in 1918.

Braithwaite joined the faculty of the first African-American graduate school at Atlanta University in 1935. His Selected Poems was published in 1948.