Jabari Asim
- January 11, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jabari Asim |
| Date Of Birth | Aug 11, 1962(1962-08-11) |
| Age | 62 |
| Birthplace | St. Louis |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | St. Louis |
| Horoscope | Leo |
Jabari Asim Biography
| Birthday | Aug 11 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
Jabari Asim is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 11, 1962 in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States. Jabari Asim (born August 11, 1962) is an author, poet, playwright, and associate professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He’s the former Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910. In February of 2019 he was named Emerson College’s inaugural Elma Lewis ’43 Distinguished Fellow in the Social Justice Center.
The Road To Freedom, Asim’s first novel for young readers, was published in 2000.
In welcoming Asim to The Crisis in August 2007, then-publisher Roger Wilkins said: “Mr. Asim is a seasoned editor, a fine writer and author of a new best selling book. He is a gentleman devoted to the cause of racial justice, is excited about his new role with the NAACP and we are energized by his joining our ranks.”
From 2008 to 2010, Asim was Scholar-in-Residence in African-American Studies and in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
His critical essay “What Is This New Thing?” appears in The Furious Flowering of African-American Poetry (ed. Joanne V. Gabbin, 1999), and an essay appeared in Step Into A World: A Global Anthology of The New Black Literature (ed. Kevin Powell, 2000).
Jabari Asim Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jabari Asim is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jabari Asim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Asim’s debut work of fiction, A Taste of Honey, is a collection of 16 connected stories told from multiple perspectives which take place in a fictional Midwestern town called Gateway in 1968, published by Broadway Books in March 2010. It was featured in the March 2010 issue of Essence magazine.
Asim spent eleven years (1996–2007) at The Washington Post as deputy editor of the book review section, children’s book editor, poetry editor, and editor of the Washington Post′s Education Review. For three years he also wrote a Washington Post Writers Group syndicated column on political and social issues for the Post. Asim is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle.
Poetry by Asim was published in African American Writers: A Literary Reader, as well as in the anthologies Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art (eds Tony Medina, Samiya Bashir & Quraysh Ali Lansana, 2002), Beyond The Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century (ed. E. Ethelbert Miller, 2002), Herb Boyd’s The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century (2003), and in From the Black Arts Movement to Furious Flower: A Collection of Contemporary African American Poetry.
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Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington was published December 4, 2012, by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The book was on the School Library Journal 2012 Editor’s Choice List, was a Kirkus Best Children’s Books List Selection, was the Fall 2012 Parent’s Choice Silver Award Winner, and was an NAACP Image Award Nominee. It won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 2013.
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Asim’s debut novel, Only the Strong, was published May 12, 2015.