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Amiri Baraka

1934 - 2014

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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amiri Baraka is the 5,697th most popular writer (down from 4,559th in 2019), the 9,302nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,148th in 2019) and the 682nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Amiri Baraka ranks 5,697 out of 7,302Before him are George William Russell, Dan Pagis, Darya Dontsova, T. C. Boyle, Natalena Koroleva, and Werewere Liking. After him are Madeleine L'Engle, Herberto Hélder, Elizabeth Montagu, Manuel Rivas, Julia Hartwig, and Ha Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Amiri Baraka ranks 462Before him are Jamie Farr, Victor Argo, John Richardson, Bent Peder Rasch, George Follmer, and Marlene Mathews. After him are Tina Louise, Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Roy Kinnear, Charles Jenkins Sr., Guillermo Sepúlveda, and David Halberstam. Among people deceased in 2014, Amiri Baraka ranks 434Before him are Klaus Schmidt, Ibrahim Touré, Barbro Kollberg, Toimi Alatalo, Washington Rodríguez, and Michio Mado. After him are Irene Fernandez, Els Borst, Glenn Cornick, Elaine Stritch, Carmen Zapata, and John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amiri Baraka ranks 9,304 out of 20,380Before him are Jason Segel (1980), Sean Parker (1979), Warren Zevon (1947), T. C. Boyle (1948), Satchel Paige (1906), and Marty Riessen (1941). After him are Dean Cundey (1946), Tracy Austin (1962), Clark Clifford (1906), Adelaide Ames (1900), Madeleine L'Engle (1918), and Sasha Mitchell (1967).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Amiri Baraka ranks 682Before him are Louise Erdrich (1954), Daniel Quinn (1935), Mary L. Trump (1965), Booth Tarkington (1869), Frank Belknap Long (1901), and T. C. Boyle (1948). After him are Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Christopher Paolini (1983), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Lloyd C. Douglas (1877), Alexei Panshin (1940), and Bill O'Reilly (1949).