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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

Writing
October 7, 1934 (Age 91) - January 9, 2014
Newark, New Jersey, USA

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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Birthday

October 7, 1934 (Age 91)

Place of Birth

Newark, New Jersey, USA

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