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Reed, Ishmael, 1938-

LC control no.n 79078102
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3568.E365
Personal name headingReed, Ishmael, 1938-
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Variant(s)Coleman, Emmett, 1938-
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1938-02-22
Place of birthChattanooga (Tenn.)
AffiliationUniversity of Buffalo Umbra Poets Workshop University of California, Berkeley Before Columbus Foundation
Yardbird Publishing Company
Profession or occupationAuthors Novelists Poets Anthropologists Publishers and publishing
Found inAuthor's The free-lance pallbearers, 1967.
Contemporary authors online, June 28, 2013 (Ishmael Reed; also known as Emmett Coleman, Ishmael Scott Reed; born February 22, 1938, Chattanooga, TN; writer)
African American National Biography, accessed September 9, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Reed, Ishmael; Ishmael Scott Reed; fiction writer, poet, essayist, educator, anthropologist, book editor/publisher; born 22 February 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States; studied at the University of Buffalo; associated with the Umbra Workshop; worked for the Newark Advance, NJ weekly, assuming the editorship (1965); lecturer, University of California, Berkeley; cofounded the Yardbird Publishing Company (1971) and the Before Columbus Foundation (1976))
Associated languageeng