Amiri Baraka
Writing · 79 years old
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
Return to Gorée
Self
Nationtime
Self
ER
Reid
Poetry in Motion
Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Self
Bulworth
Rastaman
1 P.M.
Self
Great Performances
Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Self
Death of a Prophet
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Self
The Pact
Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Himself
The New-Ark
Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Himself
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Himself
