110 likes | 217 Views
ishmael reed. By: jamil brown. background info. 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
E N D
ishmael reed By: jamil brown
background info • 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
Work and publications • 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
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