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Henry Dumas, a novelist and poet who collaborated with jazz great Sun Ra, was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas in 1934, moved to Harlem at the age of ten, joined the Air Force, attended Rutgers, worked for IBM, and taught at Hiram College in Ohio and Southern Illinois University-East St. Louis. Identified with the black power movement during his lifetime, Dumas was also active in the civil rights movement. In 1968, at the age of thirty-three, he was shot and killed by a New York Transit Authority policeman. His poems and fables, all published posthumously in book form, have established him as a central figure in the Black Arts Movement, and an important voice in American letters.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Poetry for My People (1970) Ark of Bones and Other Stories (1974) Play Ebony, Play Ivory (1974, poetry) Jonah and the Green Stone (1976, novel) Rope of Wind and Other Stories (1979) Goodbye, Sweetwater: New and Selected Stories (1988) Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas (1989) Echo Tree: The Collected Shor Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) BIOGRAPHY: Jeffrey B. Leak - Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas (University of Georgia Press 2014)