Lewis, Sir William Arthur 1915-1991
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1915 · died 1991
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
Personal file and archives, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Personnel file and archives, Princeton University
Correspondents
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1968-70, Robbins Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Printed Material
Robert L. Tignor, W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics (Princeton 2006); John P. Lewis, ‘William Arthur Lewis’ in Luminaries: Princeton Faculty Remembered ed Patricia H. Marks (Princeton, 1996)
ODNB New Palgrave III 170-1
Portraits
Robert L. Tignor, W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics (2006)