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