By: jamil brown

• Birth: February 22, 1938 (place) Chattanooga ,Tennessee

• Parents: Thelma Coleman and Henry Lenoir

Childhood

• He grew up in buffalo new York

• He also he attended the University of Buffalo

• First start writing his own jazz column when he was 14

Adult life and politics

• taught 35 at university of California.

• He currently lives in Oakland, California with his wife of more than 40 years.

• He was also a member of the Umbra Writers Workshop, an organization among whose members were some that helped establish the Black Arts Movement .

Awards

• Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1975, for The Last Days of Louisiana Red

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award for fiction, 1974; Guggenheim fellowship

• Langston Hughes Medal for Lifetime Achievement, 1994

• National Institute of Arts and Letters honor, 1975

• The Free-lance Pallbearers, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1967.

• Yellow Back Radio Broke-down, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1969.

• Mumbo Jumbo, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1972. • The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Random House

(New York, NY), 1974

Work and publications

Summary of freelance pallbearers

• It’s a miserable and dangerous place ruled for thirty years by Harry Sam who had a to a town full of different people,then the crusading Bukka Doopeyduk leaded rebellion against him.

How he view his writings

• He view his writing as a fight against racist and bad criticism the more he writing the more he win.

• Also he

Good criticism and Bad criticism

• They sad his writing was like Fredrick Douglas and Reginald Martin.

• The bad thing is they say his writing is too complicated to reed.

Influence

• He was Influence by poets in the Harlem Renaissance like Beat poets

• He was also influence by Ted Jones was an, jazz poet and painter

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