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), 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

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