Along with four Nebula Awards, two Hugo Awards, and the William
Whitehead Memorial Award for his lifetime contribution to lesbian
and gay writing, Samuel R. Delany is a winner of the Kessler Award
from CLAGS at SUNY Graduate Center.
Born and raised in New York City's Harlem in 1942, from 1988 to
1999 he was a professor of comparative literature at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. After two years' teaching in the SUNY
Buffalo Poetics Program, since January 2000 he has been a professor
of English and creative writing at Temple University, where he is
Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program.
His novels include Nova (1968), Dhalgren (1975), Trouble on Triton
(1976), and The Mad Man (1995). He is author of the four-book
series, Return to Neverÿon (1979-'87), and the short novel Phallos
(2004). His most recent novel, Dark Reflections (2008), won the
2008 Stonewall Book Award and was a runner up for that year's
Lambda Literary Award. His stories have been collected in Aye, and
Gomorrah, and Other Stories (2002) and Atlantis: Three Tales
(1995). His nonfiction volumes include The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
(1977-rev. 2009), About Writing: Seven Essays, Three Letters, and
Five Interviews (2006), and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
(1998).
He was a judge on the fiction panel for the 2010 National Book
Award. A collection of his interviews has appeared in the
University of Mississippi Press's prestigious Conversations with
Writers Series, Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (2009), edited
by Carl Freedman.
He lives in New York City.
Praise for Dark Reflections
"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and
courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly
limitless range. Delany can populate alien worlds or hypothetical
futures and he can, with equal skill, home in, as he does in Dark
Reflections, on the extraordinary life of a single, outwardly
ordinary man living right now in New York City. Delany gives us to
understand that all worlds, including our own, are alien, and
terrifying, and wondrous."--Michael Cunningham
"Dark Reflections is one of the most honest books I've ever read
about the martyrdom of the writer in the contemporary world. Samuel
Delany, who has entertained readers for decades with his rich
fantasies, now gives us the truth and nothing but the truth. At
certain points I wanted to put this down because it was so sad--but
I couldn't because I was so engrossed by its spare beauty and its
searing frankness."--Edmund White
"In previous books, Delany has shown himself to be comfortable with
both gay and straight, black and white milieus--not to mention
various literary forms--but the hero of this heartfelt, often funny
book is triply alienated...Dark Reflections, while harrowing and
bleak, is mainly tender--a loving rendition of a place that
gentrification has all but obliterated, a spot-on portrait of the
East Village artist as a gay black geek."--Andrew Holleran, writing
in The Washington Post Praise for Dhalgren
"I consider Delany not only one of the most important SF writers of
the present generation, but a fascinating writer in general who has
invented a new style." --Umberto Eco
"The very best ever to come out of the science fiction field... A
literary landmark." --Theodore Sturgeon
Praise for Dark Reflections
"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and
courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly
limitless range. Delany can populate alien worlds or hypothetical
futures and he can, with equal skill, home in, as he does in Dark
Reflections, on the extraordinary life of a single, outwardly
ordinary man living right now in New York City. Delany gives us to
understand that all worlds, including our own, are alien, and
terrifying, and wondrous."--Michael Cunningham
"Dark Reflections is one of the most honest books I've ever read
about the martyrdom of the writer in the contemporary world. Samuel
Delany, who has entertained readers for decades with his rich
fantasies, now gives us the truth and nothing but the truth. At
certain points I wanted to put this down because it was so sad--but
I couldn't because I was so engrossed by its spare beauty and its
searing frankness."--Edmund White
"In previous books, Delany has shown himself to be comfortable with
both gay and straight, black and white milieus--not to mention
various literary forms--but the hero of this heartfelt, often funny
book is triply alienated...Dark Reflections, while harrowing and
bleak, is mainly tender--a loving rendition of a place that
gentrification has all but obliterated, a spot-on portrait of the
East Village artist as a gay black geek."--Andrew Holleran, writing
in The Washington Post
Praise for Dhalgren
"I consider Delany not only one of the most important SF writers of
the present generation, but a fascinating writer in general who has
invented a new style." --Umberto Eco
"The very best ever to come out of the science fiction field... A
literary landmark." --Theodore Sturgeon
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