Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones) is the author of numerous books of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
His nonfiction includes Blues People and The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. His plays include The Slave, The Toilet, and Dutchman, which won an Obie in 1964 and was later made into a film. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic, 2007), was a New York Times Editors' Choice, and his classic collection of 1960s social and political essays, Home, is forthcoming in a new edition from Akashic in January 2009.
In 1989 he won both an American Book Award and a Langston Hughes Award. From 2002-2004, he was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey.
He lives in Newark, New Jersey.
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