Amiri Baraka
Birth date
October 7, 1934
Death date
January 9, 2014
Place of birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Profession
Writing
Age
79 years
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.
Also known as
Everett Leroy JonesLeRoi JonesImamu Amear BarakaLeRoy Jones-BarakaAmeer Baraka
