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Person Detail: Amiri Baraka
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| Full Name: Amiri Baraka | ||
| Biography: (1934-2014) Poet, playwright. Amiri Baraka was born in and died in Newark, New Jersey. He was also known as Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, and Imamu Ameer Baraka. |
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| 1934 |
(Unknown) County Everett Leroy Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7, 1934. During the 1960s he adopted the name Amiri Baraka. |
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| 2014 |
(Unknown) County Amiri Baraka died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, on January 9, 2014. |
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| 1964 |
(Unknown) County The Dead Lecturer (Pub: New York: Grove Press ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1995 |
(Unknown) County Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry Of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones, 1961-1995 (Pub: Marsilio Publishers ISBN: 1568860145 / 978-1568860145) Collection of poetry. |
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| 1967 |
(Unknown) County Dutchman (Pub: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571083536 / 978-0571083534) Play. |
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| 1963 |
(Unknown) County Blues People: Negro Music In White America (Pub: William Morrow and Company ISBN: ) Nonfiction. |
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| 1961 |
(Unknown) County Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note (Pub: Totem Press/Corinth Books ISBN: 0870910485 / 978-0870910487) Collection of poetry. |
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| 1964 |
(Unknown) County The Slave Play. |
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| 1966 |
(Unknown) County A Black Mass (Pub: Performed at Proctor's Theatre in Newark, New Jersey ISBN: ) Play. |
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| 1979 |
Suffolk County Mr. Baraka began teaching at Stony Brook University in 1979. |
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| 2005 |
(Unknown) County The Book Of Monk (Pub: John LeBow ISBN: ) Collection of short fiction. |
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| 1965 |
(Unknown) County The System of Dante's Hell (Pub: Grove Press ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1991 |
(Unknown) County The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Pub: Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN: ) Collection of works. |
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New York County Mr. Baraka lived in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. |
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New York County Mr. Baraka had taught at Columbia University. |
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