found: African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Greenlee, Sam; poet, fiction writer, essayist, screenwriter, educator, motion picture producer/ director, stage/ screen actor; born 13 July 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; BS degree in Political Science, University of Wisconsin (1952); studied at the University of Chicago (1954-1957) and at the University of Thessaloniki (1963-1964); professed fluency in Greek, Indonesian, and Malay and a much more limited knowledge of Arabic, French, and Italian, the languages he mastered while working as a foreign service officer in Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Greece for the United States Information Agency; the USIA awarded him a Meritorious Service Award; his first published novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" (1969) received the London Sunday Times Book of the Year Award and was produced as a movie in 1973; was a member of the black cultural-nationalist movement (in the 1960s and 1970s); continued to work as a radio talk show host, to write and participate in poetry readings into the twenty-first century)