Amiri Baraka

Birthday: 1934-10-07
Deathday: 2014-01-09
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2007-04-01 Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
1998-05-15 Bulworth Rastaman
1981-01-01 Death of a Prophet