# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amiri-baraka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:05.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amiri-baraka"
name: "Amiri Baraka"
slug: "amiri-baraka"
description: "Amiri Baraka, 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."
tagline: "African-American writer (1934–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amiri_Baraka_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-10-07"
deathDate: "2014-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8656899907796332
  historical:           23.981816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 195
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0052893"
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    url:       "http://www.amiribaraka.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump