Amiri Baraka
Birthday
1934/10/07
Day of death
2014/01/09 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Also know as
Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, LeRoy Jones-Baraka, Ameer Baraka
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.
Acting
(1997) Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
(2006) The Pact
as Himself
(2008) Obscene
as Self
(1971) 1 P.M.
as Self
(2006) Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
(2009) Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
(1979) Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
as Self
(1982) I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self
(2024) Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self
(2005) Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
(2007) Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
as ---
(2007) Return to Gorée
as Self
(1998) Bulworth
as Rastaman
(1983) In Motion: Amiri Baraka
as Himself
(1982) Poetry in Motion
as Self
(2005) Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self
(1969) The New-Ark
as Self
(1987) Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself
(1981) Death of a Prophet
as ---
(1989) James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
(2008) New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself
(2007) Turn Me On
as Self
(1972) Nationtime
as Self
(1970) Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
as Self
(1978) Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
(2006) Poets at the Living Theater
as Self
(1994) ER
as Reid
(1971) Great Performances
as Self