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.
Wrote 7
2020s
- 2026
1990s
- 1996
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Writer
1970s
- 1973
Medea
Writer
- 1972
- 1971
A Fable
Theatre Play, Screenplay
1960s
- 1969
The New-Ark
Writer
- 1966
Dutchman
Writer, Theatre Play
Acted in 4
1990s
- 1998
- 1994
1980s
- 1982
Speaking in Tongues
Movie
- 1981
Directed 1
1960s
- 1969
The New-Ark
Director
Appearances22
2020s
- 2025
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Self - poet
2000s
- 2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Self
- 2008
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Himself
- 2007
Return to Gorée
Self
Turn Me On
Self
- 2006
Poets at the Living Theater
Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Self
- 2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Himself
- 2004
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Self
1990s
- 1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Self
- 1996
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Self
1980s
- 1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Self
- 1987
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Himself
- 1982
Poetry in Motion
Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Self
1970s
- 1978
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Self
- 1972
- 1971
1 P.M.
Self
1960s
- 1969
The New-Ark
Self