Born: 05/31/1939   Ocean Springs
Parents: Albert James Young, Mary Young
Spouse: Arline Belck
Children: Michael James
Address(es):
Berkeley , CA
Contact Information:
Website : http://alyoung.org/index.php/biography/

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Jazz idiom : blueprints, stills, and frames : the jazz photography of Charles L. Robinson / poetic takes and riffs by Al Young.	Non Fiction , Picture Book , Poetry	Adult	Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books	2008
	Coastal nights and inland afternoons : the poetry of Al Young, poems, 2000-2006	Poetry	Adult	Santa Monica, Calif. : Angel City Press	2006
	The sound of dreams remembered : poems 1990-2000 - American Book Award 2002	Poetry	Adult	Berkeley, Calif. : Creative Arts Book Co.	2001
	Conjugal visits : and other poems in verse and prose	Poetry	Adult	Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Company	1996
	Drowning in the sea of love : musical memoirs	Non Fiction	Adult	Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press	1995
	Straight No chaser	Fiction	Adult	Berkeley, CA. : Creative Arts Book Co.	1994
	Heaven : collected Poems 1956-1990	Poetry		Creative Arts	1992
	Seduction by Light	Fiction	Adult	New York : Delta Books/Seymour Lawrence	1988
	Things Ain't What They Used to Be: Musical Memoirs	Non Fiction	Adult	Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Co.	1987
	Kinds of Blue: Musical Memoirs	Non Fiction	Adult	San Francisco : D. S. Ellis ; Berkeley : Distributed by Creative Arts Book Co.	1984
	The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems	Poetry	Adult	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press	1982
	Bodies & Soul: Musical Memoirs - American Book Award 1982	Non Fiction	Adult	Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Co.	1981
	Ask Me Now	Fiction	Adult	New York : McGraw-Hill	1980
	Yardbird Lives! -  edited by Ishmael Reed and Al Young.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Grove Press : distributed by Random House	1978
	Geography of the Near Past : poems	Poetry	Adult	New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston	1976
	Sitting Pretty : a novel	Fiction	Adult	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1976
	Who is Angelina?	Fiction	Adult	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1975
	Some Recent Fiction	Poetry		San Francisco Book Company	1974
	Nigger - Screenplay	Drama	Adult		1972
	Sparkle - Screenplay	Drama	Adult		1972
	The Song Turning Back into Itself	Poetry	Adult	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1971
	New Directions in Prose and Poetry 22	Non Fiction , Poetry	Adult	New York : New Directions,	1970
	Snakes: A Novel - The author, like his chief character, M. C. Moore grew up black in Detroit with music on his mind.	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1970 -1972
	- in the 1970s, he wrote scripts for Joseph Strick, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor.	Fiction	Adult		1970
	Dancing: Poems	Poetry	Adult	New York, Corinth Books	1969 -1973
	- In Rolling Stone, New Times, Audience, Journal of Black Poetry, others	Fiction

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "I grew up in Michigan and there will always be something of the romantic but practical Midwestern in my work. I regard my work as both a practical and a spiritual activity; its purpose is to share what I have learned about being human in such a way as to strike responsive chords in the hearts of my readers."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet
Other - Screenwriter

MeLCat Links:
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