Amiri Baraka

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1934-10-07

Deathday 2014-01-09 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Newark, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, LeRoy Jones-Baraka, Ameer Baraka

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

Writer

The Dutchman

as Original Story

1973
Medea

as Writer

1972
Nationtime

as Writer

1971
A Fable

as Screenplay

1971
A Fable

as Theatre Play

1969
The New-Ark

as Writer

1966
Dutchman

as Writer

Director

1969
The New-Ark

as Director