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Al Young

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Gender Male
Date of birth May 31,1939
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Ocean Springs
Mississippi
United States
Job Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Educator
Novelist
Essayist
Education University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
Awards American Book Award
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
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California
United States
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Date of Upd.
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Seduction by light
Who is Angelina?
Something About the Blues
The blues don't change
Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs
Bodies & soul
The Sound of Dreams Remembered
Kinds of blue
Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-1990
The song turning back into itself; poems
Geography of the Near Past: Poems
Mingus/ Mingus
Ask Me Now
Conjugal Visits
Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: The Poetry of Al Young, Poems, 2000-2006
San Francisco Peace and Hope
Things Ain't what They Used to be: Musical Memoirs
Who is Angelina? A Novel
Sitting Pretty: A Novel
Dancing: Poems
Snakes: A Novel
Shifting Gears: My Global Bike Odyssey
Straight No Chaser
Ernest Buckler
Al Young: Sitting Pretty/Readings
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Albert James Young was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books included novels, collections of poetry, essays, and memoirs.

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