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.
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Actor
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as Himself
as Rastaman
as Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka)
as Reid
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Writer
as Original Story
as Writer
as Writer
as Theatre Play
as Screenplay
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as Writer
Director
as Director