Sceneggiatura

Amiri Baraka

Altri nomi: Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka

Data di nascita

7 ottobre 1934

Data di morte

9 gennaio 2014

(morto a 79 anni)

Luogo di nascita

Newark, New Jersey, USA

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Biografia

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.