By: jamil brown
Birth: February 22, 1938 (place) Chattanooga,Tennessee Job: novelist and journalists also taught 35 at university of California Parents: Thelma Coleman and Henry Lenoir first start writing his own jazz column when he was 14
The Free-lance Pallbearers, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), Yellow Back Radio Broke-down, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), Mumbo Jumbo, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Random House (New York, NY), 1974
Education University of buffalo
Awards Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1975, for The Last Days of Louisiana Red John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award for fiction, 1974; Guggenheim fellowship Langston Hughes Medal for Lifetime Achievement, 1994 National Institute of Arts and Letters honor, 1975