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Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an American writer of poetry, drama, novels, essays and music critic. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at several universities, including the Universities of Buffalo and Stony Brook. He received the PEN / Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's career spanned nearly 52 years, and his subjects ranged from black liberation to white racism. Some poems still associated with him are "Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk" and "New Music, New Poetry", works with themes from the social world, music and literature. Baraka's poetry and writing have drawn both praise and condemnation. In the African American community, some compare Baraka to James Baldwin and recognize him as one of the most respected and published black writers of his generation.
BornEverett LeRoi Jones, October 7, 1934, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJanuary 9, 2014, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Pen nameLeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka
OccupationActor, teacher, theater director, theater producer, writer, activist, and poet
Period1961–2014
GenrePoetry and drama
SpousesHettie Cohen ~1958 (div.), Amina Baraka née Sylvia Robinson, ~1966–2014
ChildrenKellie Jones, Lisa Jones, Dominique di Prima, Maria Jones, Shani Baraka, Obalaji Baraka, Ras J. Baraka, Ahi Baraka, Amiri Baraka Jr.

About Amiri Baraka

Poet Amiri Baraka was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States on October 7, 1934. He dies at the age of 79, on January 9, 2014.

Blues People: Negro Music in White America (nonfiction), The System of Dante's Hell (fiction), A Black Mass (play), and Slave Ship (drama) are among the works of this African-American poet, critic, and dramatist (poems). From 2002 to 2003, he was New Jersey's Poet Laureate.

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Amiri Baraka before becoming famous

Amiri Baraka was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1934 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

He went to Columbia University and Rutgers University. In 1961, he wrote his debut poem, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note.

Achievement of Amiri Baraka

Tales of the Out and the Gone, a novel he published in 2006, won the PEN Open Book Award in 2008.

Amiri Baraka's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

With writer Hettie Cohen, he had two daughters. He had seven more children with his second wife, Amina Baraka (born Sylvia Robinson).

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Bulworth, a 1998 film starring Movie Actor Warren Beatty as Senator Jay Billington Bulworth, featured him.

Amiri Baraka Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Amiri Baraka updated on March 10 2023.