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2002
Recipient
Ishmael Reed co-founded
the East Village, an underground newspaper that received a national
reputation in 1965. He has produced seven novels, four books of
poetry, two collections of essays, five plays, one libretto and
numerous reviews and critical articles in addition to editing two
major anthologies. He also wrote plays to provide black actors with
roles that were more challenging than the stereotypical ones available
to them in the movie, television and theatre industries. Mr. Reed
has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, and for twenty years
he has been a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley.
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