Melvin Dixon
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Melvin Dixon (May 29, 1950-October 26, 1992[1]) was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator. He wrote about black gay men.[2]
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[edit] Biography
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1971 and a PhD from Brown University in 1975.[3]
In 1989, Trouble the Water won the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award.[4]
He was a Professor of Literature at Queens College from 1980 until his death, at age 42. He died of AIDS in his hometown, one year after his partner Richard Horovitz did.[5]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Collection of poems
- Change of Territory (1983)
- Love's Instruments (1995, posthumous)
[edit] Textbooks
- Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature
[edit] Novels
- Trouble the Water (1989)
- Vanishing Rooms (1990)
[edit] References
- ^ Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (1999). Contemporary African American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 129-136. ISBN 0313305013.
- ^ A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader, ed. Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride, University Press of Mississippi, 2006
- ^ "Melvin Dixon, 42, Professor and Author". New York Times. 29 October 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/29/obituaries/melvin-dixon-42-professor-and-author.html. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ Kennedy, Constance Decker (24 September 1989). "University Presses/In Short; Fiction". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/24/books/university-presses-in-short-fiction-740289.html. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "Richard Horovitz, 44, Foundation Executive". New York Times. 20 July 1991. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/20/obituaries/richard-horovitz-44-foundation-executive.html. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
