Amiri Baraka
African-American writer (1934–2014)
Biography
Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.
Occupation
Amiri Baraka is recorded as a prose writer, a essayist, a activist, a critic, a novelist, a music critic, a journalist, a playwright, a poet, a writer and a screenwriter, born in New Jersey (1934–2014).
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