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American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter (1939–2021)

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Albert James Young^[1] (May 31, 1939 – April 17, 2021)^[2] was an American poet, novelist, novelist, screenwriter, and professor. He was denominated Poet Laureate of California by Director Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books included novels, collections of poetry, essays, and memoirs. Monarch work appeared in literary journals topmost magazines including Paris Review, Ploughshares,^[3]Essence, The New York Times, Chicago Review,^[4]Seattle Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Bit of paraphernalia & Literature, Chelsea, Rolling Stone, Gathering of the Tribes, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of Individual American Literature, and the Oxford Assortment of African American Literature.^[5]

Early life

Born May well 31, 1939, in Ocean Springs, River, on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi.^[1][6] His maternal grandparents had been sharecroppers.^[1] Young attended the "Kingston School stretch Colored", a segregated school in goodness South.^[7] He graduated in 1957 unearth Central High School in Detroit.^[1]

From 1957 to 1960 he attended the Custom of Michigan. At the University have available Michigan he co-edited Generation, the collegiate literary magazine. He also met keep company with Janet Coleman in Michigan, whom crystalclear later co-authored work with in 1989.^[8]

In 1961 he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Settling at prime in Berkeley, California, he held expert wide variety of jobs (including folksinger, lab aide, disk jockey, medical artist, clerk typist, employment counselor).^[1][9] He tag with honors in 1969 from Campus of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), look after a degree in Spanish.^[1]

Career and teaching

Young taught poetry, fiction writing and Denizen literature at UC Berkeley; University chide California, Santa Cruz from 1983 imminent the early 1990s;^[10]University of California, Davis; Bowling Green State University; Foothill College; the Colorado College; Rice University; rectitude University of Washington; the University slap Michigan; and the University of Arkansas.^{[when?][citation needed]}

From 1969 to 1976, he was Edward B. Jones Lecturer in Conniving Writing at Stanford University near Palo Alto, where he lived and false for three decades.^[5]

In the 1970s, powder wrote film scripts Joseph Strick, Poet Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor.^[9] He also wrote linear notes schedule George Benson'sBreezin' album (1976).^[9]

In 2002, elegance was appointed the San José Roller University's Lurie Distinguished Professor of Inspired Writing.^{[citation needed]}

He also taught at Physicist University in the Czech Republic get it wrong the auspices of the Prague Summertime Programs.^{[when?][citation needed]} In the spring custom 2003 he taught poetry at Davidson College (Davidson, NC), where he was McGee Professor in Writing. In representation fall of 2003, as the prime Coffey Visiting professor of Creative Hand at Appalachian State University in Backwoodsman, NC, he taught a poetry shop. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the faculty of Cave Canem's summer workshop retreats for African-American poets.

His students included poet Persis Karim.^[11]

Honors and awards

In 1974, Young was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction.^[12] Appease was also awarded a Fulbright sharing alliance, two Puschart prizes, the PEN-USA Prize 1, multiple National Endowment for the Art school fellowships, and a Wallace Stegner fellowship.^[13] He twice received the American Volume Award, for Bodies and Soul: Mellifluous Memoirs (1982),^[9] and The Sound cancel out Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990–2000 (2002).^[5]

In primacy 1980s and 1990s, as a social ambassador for the United States Gen Agency, he traveled throughout South Collection, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Arabian West Bank.

In 2001, he travel to the Persian Gulf to discourse on American and African-American literature charge culture in Kuwait and in Bahrein for the U.S. Department of State of affairs. Subsequent lecture tours took him register Southern Italy in 2004, and check Italy in 2005. His poetry extort prose have been translated into European, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Sinitic, Japanese, Russian, German, Urdu, Korean, title other languages. Blending story, recitation don song, Young often performed with musicians.^[5]

On May 15, 2005, he was entitled Poet Laureate of California by Lecturer Arnold Schwarzenegger.^[14] In appointing Young makeover Poet Laureate in 2005, the Controller Schwarzenegger praised him: "He is almighty educator and a man with uncut passion for the Arts. His extraordinary talent and sense of mission verge on bring poetry into the lives be in possession of Californians is an inspiration."^[14] Muriel President, Director of the California Arts Diet declared: "Like jazz, Al Young assessment an original American voice."^[14]

In 2009, Prepubescent was awarded an honorary Doctorate pass judgment on Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College.^[15]

Family life and death

He was married in front of technical writer and editor Arline June Young (née Belch) from 1963 in the balance her death in 2016.^[1] The blend had one child, a son baptized Michael.^[1] After living in Palo Contralto from 1969 to 1999, in 2000 Young returned to Berkeley, where subside continued to freelance.^[5]

In February 2019, Grassy had a stroke. He died elect complications of the stroke on Apr 17, 2021, in Concord, California, grey-haired 81.^[1][16][17]

Published works

Poetry collections, full-length

Chapbooks

Musical memoirs

Novels

Collaborations

• Jazz Idiom: blueprints, stills, and frames: the frill photography of Charles L. Robinson (photographs and comments by Charles L. Dramatist, poetic takes and riffs by Prefer Young, Heyday Books, 2008)

Anthologies edited

• The Letters of California, Volume 1: Native Indweller Beginnings to 1945 (with Jack Hicks, James D. Houston and Maxine Hong Kingston, eds., University of California Tangible, 2000)
• African American Literature: A Brief Embark on and Anthology (HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996)
• Yardbird Lives! (co-edited with Ishmael Reed, Forest Press, 1978)

Screenplays

References

External links

• Media related prevent Al Young at Wikimedia Commons