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Sharon Lynn Adams was the wife of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sharon’s Husband Henry Gates is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

 Sharon Lynn Adams was born on 21 April 1950, West Virginia United States of America. She is 71 years of age as of 2021. Sharon Lynn Adams’ father Edward Elwyn “Jack” Adams was a coal miner and her mother was Doris Evelyn Lee.

In 1972, when Sharon was working for Jay Rockefeller’s campaign for governor of West Virginia about which Gates planned to write a book, she met her ex-husband Louis Gates. Gates married Sharon Lynn Adams in 1979. They had two daughters together before their marriage came to an end in 1999. The exact reason the two ended their 20 years marriage is unknown, but some people use to making fun of Dr. Gates, Sharon’s husband because they are saying that it’s funny that one of the most preeminent black scholars in the country cannot find a black wife. 

When they were still married, Sharon and her husband mostly on various activities. In 1995 Gates presented a program in the BBC series Great Railway Journeys (produced in association with PBS). The program documents a 3,000-mile journey Gates took through Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania, with his then-wife Sharon Adams and daughters Liza and Meggie Gates. This trip came 25 years after Gates worked at a hospital in Kilimatinde near Dodoma, Tanzania, as a 19-year-old pre-medical student at Yale University.

Facts about Sharon Lynn Adams Ex Husband Henry Gates Jr.

Sharon Lynn Adams Ex-Husband Henry Gates Jr. was born Sept. 16, 1950, in Keyser, W.Va. His father worked at the local paper mill during the day and as a janitor at a telephone company at night. His mother cleaned houses.

At the age of 14, Gates suffered a hairline fracture of the ball-and-socket joint in his hip while playing touch football. A white doctor misdiagnosed the injury as psychosomatic after Gates told him he wanted to become a doctor, Gates wrote in a New York Times article, “About Men: A Giant Step,” in 1990. As a result of the injury, Gates walks with a cane and his right leg is more than 2 inches shorter than his left.

As a child, Gates said he wanted to be a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his B.A. summa cum laude in history from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. He’s received 50 honorary degrees from such institutions as Harvard University and Williams College.

At Yale University in 1973, he was one of 12 students selected as a Scholar of the House, a program that allows seniors to write a book or compose a symphony or follow a similar passion instead of taking classes. Gates wrote a book about Jay Rockefeller’s campaign to be governor of West Virginia. (Rockefeller lost in 1972 but later served two terms as governor.)

Gates says John Morton Blum, a professor in Yale’s history department, was his mentor. From Blum, he says, he learned a lot about writing and history. More than anyone else, the historian is responsible for “entertaining the idea remotely” that Gates could become a writer.

In 1973, Lynn Adams Ex-Husband became the first African-American to receive an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship to study at Cambridge.

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