biography
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Reed, Ishmael (Scott)
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pseudonym Emmett Coleman
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Writer and poet, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He studied at the University of Buffalo (1956–60), and was a founder of the East Village Other, a newspaper in New York (1965). He moved to Berkeley, CA and established the Yardbird Publishing Co (1971) and a communications company (1973). He began as a poet, but is best known for his freewheeling satirical novels using African-American themes and linguistic styles. |
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