
Amiri Baraka
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.
Acting (20 movies)

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997

The Pact
2006

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008

1 P.M.
1971

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005

Return to Gorée
2007

Bulworth
1998

Poetry in Motion
1982

The New-Ark
1969

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987

Death of a Prophet
1981

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008

Turn Me On
2007

Nationtime
1972

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978

Poets at the Living Theater
2006
Directing (3 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Dutchman | 1966 | Writer |
| The New-Ark | 1969 | Writer |
| A Fable | 1971 | Screenplay |
| Nationtime | 1972 | Writer |
| Medea | 1973 | Writer |