Transcript Ishmael reed

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
• National Institute of Arts and Letters honor, 1975
• Langston Hughes Medal for Lifetime Achievement, 1994
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.
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.
How he view his writings
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