Waters Edward Turpin (April 9, 1910 – November 19, 1968) was an American novelist, professor, playwright, and textbook author.
[1] His early career started in 1935 as an English teacher at Storer College, but left to finish his doctorate degree.
[8] In 1950, he joined the English department at his alma mater Morgan State College, where his wife Jean also taught.
[10] These Low Grounds (1937) was compared in a few book reviews to the Zora Neale Hurston novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), because they were released at the same period.
In 1983, Morgan State University initiated the Nick Aaron Ford and Waters Edward Turpin Symposium on African-American Literature.