co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Crouch wrote about Murray at length in his book Always in Pursuit. Henry Louis Gates Jr. concluded his 1996 New Yorker profile of Murray by noting: "This is Albert Murray's century; we just live in it." He was the inaugural recipient of the Harper Lee Award in 1998. Death Murray died in Harlem on August 18, 2013. The following month, a memorial service was held at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The Library of America released an anthology of his nonfiction writing in 2016. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin served as editors. A follow-up collection with Murray's fiction and poetry was published in 2018. Selected bibliography The Omni-Americans (1970) South to a Very Old Place (1971) The Hero and the Blues (1973) Train Whistle Guitar (1974) Stomping the Blues (1976) The Spyglass Tree (1991) The Blue Devils of Nada (1996) The Seven League Boots (1996) Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (2000) Conjugations and Reiterations: Poems (2001) From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity (2001) The Magic Keys (2005) References External links "Distinguished Artist Award," Alabama Arts Council, 2003. Go to iTunes U to view "Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation: A SympoSium" from Auburn University, January 2008. Boynton, Robert "The New Intellectuals," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1995. 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American music critics Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Writers from Mobile, Alabama African-American novelists 1916 births 2013 deaths People from Escambia County, Alabama United States Air Force officers United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Jazz writers Tuskegee University alumni 20th-century American biographers Journalists from Alabama Novelists from Alabama 20th-century American male writers United States Air Force reservists American male biographers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American writers University of Michigan alumni