William Melvin Kelley
William Melvin Kelley (born November 1, 1937), is a prominent African American novelist and short-story writer. He is known for the novel A Different Drummer. He has won, among other things, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2008 for Lifetime Achievement. Kelley has been a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and has taught at the New School for Social Research. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.[1]
Kelley was born in New York City and was educated at the Fieldston School in New York and later attended Harvard University (class of 1960),[2] where he won the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing.
According to Robert E. Fleming,[3] "From the beginning of his career in 1962, William Melvin Kelley has employed his distinctive form of Black comedy to examine the absurdities surrounding American racial attitudes."
Personal life
Bibliography
- A Different Drummer (Doubleday, 1962)
- Dancers on the Shore (Doubleday, 1964)
- A Drop of Patience (Doubleday, 1965)
- Dem (Doubleday 1967)
- Dunfords Travels Everywheres (Doubleday, 1970)
References
- ^ Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Emmanuel S. Nelson, editor. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1999. Page Number: 238. See web version (accessed September 16, 2008)
- ^ Blacks at Harvard, By Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Randall Kennedy, Thomas A. Underwood, NYU Press, 1993, ISBN 0814779735, 9780814779736
- ^ excepted from The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (New York, Oxford University Press, 1997), quoted from aalbc.com (accessed September 16 2008)
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Novelist, short story writer |
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November 1, 1937 |
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New York City, New York, United States |
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