Amiri Baraka
October 7, 1934 (90 years old) in Newark, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 ·Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amirias Self
- 2009 ·Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonderas Self
- 2008 ·Obsceneas Self
- 2008 ·New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Countercultureas Himself
- 2007 ·Return to Goréeas Self
- 2007 ·Turn Me Onas Self
- 2007 ·Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Placeas
- 2006 ·Poets at the Living Theateras Self
- 2006 ·Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrowas Self
- 2006 ·The Pactas Himself
- 2005 ·Cecil Taylor: All The Notesas Himself
- 2005 ·Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planetas Self
- 1998 ·Bulworthas Rastaman
- 1997 ·Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spiritas Self
- 1994 ·ERas Reid
- 1989 ·James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticketas Self
- 1987 ·Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeperas Himself
- 1983 ·In Motion: Amiri Barakaas Himself
- 1982 ·Poetry in Motionas Self
- 1982 ·I Heard It Through the Grapevineas Self
- 1981 ·Death of a Prophetas
- 1979 ·Fried Shoes Cooked Diamondsas Self
- 1978 ·Black Theatre: The Making of a Movementas Self
- 1972 ·Nationtimeas Self
- 1971 ·1 P.M.as Self
- 1971 ·Great Performancesas Self
- 1970 ·Black Journal: 23; New-Arkas Self
- 1969 ·The New-Arkas Self