Larry Neal was a playwright and cultural critic from Atlanta. He graduated with a BA from Lincoln University and studied folklore at the graduate level at the University of Pennsylvania. His collections of poetry include Black Boogaloo: Notes on a Black Literature (1969) and Hoodoo Hollerin Bebop Ghosts (1971). He also edited the anthology Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968) along with Amiri Baraka. Neal was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for African American critical studies in 1970.
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