1. By: jamil brown

2. 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

3. The Free-lance Pallbearers, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1967. Yellow Back Radio Broke-down, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1969. Mumbo Jumbo, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1972. The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Random House (New York, NY), 1974

4. Education University of buffalo

5. 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