Author and producer Barry Michael Cooper has died in Baltimore, Maryland … TMZ has realized.

Cooper wrote a sequence of iconic Nineties films, together with “New Jack Metropolis,” starring Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock … “Above The Rim,” starring Tupac Shakur … and “Sugar Hill.” He additionally produced the 2017-2019 TV sequence “She’s Gotta Have It,” based mostly on the Spike Lee movie of the identical title.

He started his profession as a journalist, writing for Spin Journal and the Village Voice, amongst others.

Cooper had simply posted on Instagram on January 15, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday.

The Maryland Chief Medical Examiner’s Workplace confirmed Cooper died Tuesday.

He was 66.