LC control no. | n 79078102 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3568.E365 |
Personal name heading | Reed, Ishmael, 1938- |
Variant(s) | Coleman, Emmett, 1938- |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1938-02-22 |
Place of birth | Chattanooga (Tenn.) |
Affiliation | University of Buffalo Umbra Poets Workshop University of California, Berkeley Before Columbus Foundation Yardbird Publishing Company |
Profession or occupation | Authors Novelists Poets Anthropologists Publishers and publishing |
Found in | Author'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 language | eng |