Amiri Baraka
Known For
Writing
Born
1934-10-07 in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died
2014-01-09
Biography
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Most Known For
ER
as Reid
Great Performances
as Self
Bulworth
as Rastaman
Nationtime
as Self
The Pact
as Self
Death of a Prophet
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
Poetry in Motion
as Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Turn Me On
as Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
as Self
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
as Self
Return to Gorée
as Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
as Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
