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Ishmael Reed Revered African-American novelist, poet, playwright, educator, activist, and musician

Ishmael Reed

Author Biography

Author of twenty-five published books and six plays to date, Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist. He is also a p
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Influences

Langston Hughes

Nathaniel West

D.O. Fagunwa

American Indian and African American folklore

Web Links

Ishmael Reed's Blog

Attached at the Roots
November 29, 2007
- I’ve known people who have had some success, and the next thing you know, you can’t reach them. It’s like they drop off the map, at least socially.
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Press

NeoHooDoo - Faith and ritual in art of the Americas

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Media

Ishmael Reed Plays Tadd Dameron's "If You Could See Me Now"	The Commonwealth Club Panel on redroom.com - Ishmael Reed	Ishmael Reed Interview with Red Room
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Published Works


New and Collected Poems 1964-2006	Another Day at the Front	From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002
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Published Reviews

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story by Variety
Mixing it Up by Kirkus Reviews
Mixing it Up by Library Journal
Body Parts by Back Stage
A Review of Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed by Rastafari Speaks
The Terrible Twos by The New York Times
Fighting Words by The New York Times