Prolific Off-Broadway Playwright, Poet & Novelist Amiri Baraka Dies at 79
Revolutionary writer Amiri Baraka, who wrote the acclaimed play Dutchman under the name LeRoi Jones, passed away January 9 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ, The New York Times reports. He was 79 years old. Born Everett Leroy Jones, the writer premiered his controversial but groundbreaking play Dutchman in 1964 at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre. His additional plays include The Slave, J-E-L-L-O…