Amiri Baraka
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.
Known For
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Bulworth
1998
Nationtime
1972
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006
Death of a Prophet
1981
Poetry in Motion
1982
The Pact
2006
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
1 P.M.
1971
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
Turn Me On
2007
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
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Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
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The New-Ark
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Return to Gorée
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W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996
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Speaking in Tongues
1982
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008