Amiri Baraka

About Amiri Baraka

Birth Day: October 7, 1934
Birth Place: Newark, NJ

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka net worth and salary: Amiri Baraka is a Poet who has a net worth of $20 Million. Amiri Baraka was born in Newark, in October 7, 1934. African-American poet, critic, and dramatist known for works such as Blues People: Negro Music in White America (nonfiction), The System of Dante's Hell (fiction), A Black Mass (drama), and Slave Ship (poems). He served as Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002-2003.
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Popular As Amiri Baraka
Occupation Poet
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born October 7, 1934 (Newark, NJ)
Birthday October 7
Town/City Newark, NJ
Nationality NJ

๐ŸŒ™ Zodiac

Amiri Barakaโ€™s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible

๐ŸŒ™ Chinese Zodiac Signs

Amiri Baraka was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.

About

African-American poet, critic, and dramatist known for works such as Blues People: Negro Music in White America (nonfiction), The System of Dante's Hell (fiction), A Black Mass (drama), and Slave Ship (poems). He served as Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002-2003.

Before Fame

He attended Rutgers University and Columbia University. He published his first poetic work, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, in 1961.

Trivia

His 2006 fiction work, Tales of the Out and the Gone, received the PEN Open Book Award in 2008.

Family Life

He had two daughters with writer Hettie Cohen. With his second wife, Amina Baraka (born Sylvia Robinson), he had seven more children.

Associated With

He appeared in Bulworth, a 1998 film that starred Warren Beatty as Senator Jay Billington Bulworth.

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