Amiri Baraka
Age: N/A | From: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Everett Leroy Jones , LeRoi Jones , Imamu Amear Baraka , LeRoy Jones-Baraka , Ameer Baraka
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 18
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
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(1994) Reid
Nationtime
(1972) Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
(1978) Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
(1982) Self
Poetry in Motion
(1982) self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
(2006) Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
(1997) Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka)
Return to Gorée
(2007) SelfActing
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| 2024 | Self | |
| 2009 | Himself | |
| 2008 | Self | |
| Himself | ||
| 2007 | Self | |
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| 2006 | Self | |
| Himself | ||
| 2005 | Himself | |
| 1998 | Rastaman | |
| 1997 | Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka) | |
| 1994 | Reid | |
| 1989 | Self | |
| 1987 | Himself | |
| 1983 | Himself | |
| 1982 | self | |
| Self | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1979 | Himself | |
| 1978 | Self | |
| 1972 | Self | |
| 1971 | Self | |
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| 1968 | N/A | |
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Writing
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| 1973 | Writer | |
| 1972 | Writer | |
| 1971 | Theatre Play | |
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| 1966 | Writer | |
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