American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, and playwright (born 1938)
Ishmael Reed
Reed in 2019
Born
Ishmael Scott Reed (1938-02-22) February 22, 1938 (age 86) Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
essayist
novelist
playwright
lyricist
Education
University of Buffalo
Notable works
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969)
Mumbo Jumbo (1972)
The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974)
Japanese by Spring (1993)
Spouse
Priscilla Thompson (m. 1960; divorced)
Carla Blank
(m. 1970)
Children
2
Website
ishmaelreed.org
Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Perhaps his best-known work is Mumbo Jumbo (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York.
Reed's work has often sought to represent neglected African and African-American perspectives; his energy and advocacy have centered more broadly on neglected peoples and perspectives, irrespective of their cultural origins.[10]
^"Ishmael Reed Biography". Math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
^Reed, Ishmael (November 9, 2011). "Trouble Beside the Bay". The New York Times.
^Reed, Ishmael (December 11, 2010). "What Progressives Don't Understand About Obama". The New York Times.
^Reed, Ishmael (February 4, 2010). "Fade to White". The New York Times.
^Reed, Ishmael (January 28, 2012). "Ishmael Reed on the Miltonian Origin of The Other". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 9, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
^Bauch, Hubert (April 24, 2010). "Taking on the Jim Crow media". The Montreal Gazette.[permanent dead link]
^Ludwig, Samuel (December 18, 2002). "Ishmael Reed". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
^Juan-Navarro, Santiago (2010). "Self-Reflexivity and Historical Revisionism in Ishmael Reed's Neo-Hoodoo Aesthetics" (PDF). The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, 17. pp. 77–100. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
^Mitchell, J. D. (September 13, 2011). "At Work: Ishmael Reed on 'Juice!'". The Paris Review.
^Elliot Fox, Robert (September 20, 2011). "About Ishmael Reed's Life and Work". Modern American Poetry website. Archived from the original on October 17, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his...
youth and community arts projects. Blank is editorial director of the IshmaelReed Publishing Company, and has also lectured at such educational institutions...
described as a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by IshmaelReed that depicts the life and personal relationships of an African American...
Writer's Block) and Nicodemus Nicoludis, which has or will publish work by IshmaelReed, John Farris, Masha Tupitsyn, Paul Schrader, Mike Sacks, Stacy Szymaszek...
himself in the counterculture and met people like Huey P. Newton and IshmaelReed. In the 1970s, Pryor wrote for television shows such as Sanford and Son...
com. Reed 2003, p. xix "Understanding pictograms". BBC — Skillswise. Archived from the original on 2013-12-29. Retrieved 2014-05-11. Reed, Ishmael (2003)...
Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and IshmaelReed. Abrams, M. H. (2005). A Glossary of Literary Terms. With contributions...
Sharp 1983 Nona, Nona Hendryx 1984 "Conjure - Music For The Texts Of IshmaelReed", Conjure 1985 The African Flower, James Newton 1985 The Sixth Sense...
food from the Southern United States Yardbird Reader, journal edited by IshmaelReed from 1972 to 1976) The Yardbirds, a British psychedelic band Roger the...
The Terrible Twos, an American children's music band A 1982 novel by IshmaelReed A book by Sarah Kennedy The Terrible Two, a 2018 American film written...
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critiques; IshmaelReed, author of Neo-HooDoo Manifesto, argues for artistic freedom, ultimately against Karenga's idea of the Black Aesthetic, which Reed finds...
the wall, as well as footage of African-American writer IshmaelReed. At the show's opening, Reed performed and Okri recited a poem written for the occasion...
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Buffalo. Several famous writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Camille Paglia and IshmaelReed paid homage to him and his works. Although some sources wrongly attribute...
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of the Mountain (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston; Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by IshmaelReed; The Rosetta Key (2008) by William Dietrich; and The Serpent's Shadow...
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