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
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Bibliography
- A Different Drummer, Doubleday (1962), reprinted by Anchor Books (1990) ISBN 0-385-41390-4
- Dancers on the Shore, Doubleday (1964), reprinted by Howard University Press (1982) ISBN 0-8825-8114-7
- A Drop of Patience, Doubleday (1965), reprinted by Ecco Press (1996) ISBN 0-8800-1460-1
- dem, Doubleday (1967), reprinted by Coffee House Press (2001) ISBN 1-56689-102-7
- Dunford's Travels Everywheres, Doubleday (1970) ISBN 0-8936-6101-5
References
- ^ Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Emmanuel S. Nelson, editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999, p. 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 0-8147-7973-5, ISBN 978-0-8147-7973-6
- ^ excerpted from The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (New York, Oxford University Press, 1997), quoted from aalbc.com (accessed September 16, 2008)
External links
- Brief biography
- William Kelley at aalbc.com
- Bio from Contemporary African American Novelists
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