By: jamil brown. Birth: February 22, 1938 (place) Chattanooga,Tennessee Job: novelist and...
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By: jamil brown
• Birth: February 22, 1938 (place) Chattanooga ,Tennessee
• Job: novelist and journalists also taught 35 at university of California
• Parents: Thelma Coleman and Henry Lenoir
• first start writing his own jazz column when he was 14
• 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
Education
• University of buffalo
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