Samuel R. Delany
sdelany@temple.edu
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Samuel R. Delany is a critic and novelist, with essays and
interviews so far collected in seven volumes, the most recent three of which
are Silent Interviews (1994), Longer Views (1996) and Shorter Views (1999).
He has written a highly praised autobiography The Motion of Light in Water
(1988) and the best-selling Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1998),
and, among his fiction, The Mad Man (1995), Atlantis: Three Tales (1993),
and Dhalgren (1975). Over the next year some of his early science
fiction—Babel-17 and Empire Star (both 1966), Nova
(1968), and Driftglass (collected stories, 1970)—will come back into print. In 1999 a substantial
book of his letters, 1984: Selected Letters appeared. In summer 2002
The Mad Man will be republished. Mr. Delany is a multiple winner of both
Hugo and Nebula Awards for science fiction. He is a recipient of the Pilgrim
Award for outstanding scholarship in the field of science fiction studies
and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime’s contribution to
Lesbian and Gay Literature. His scholarly interests include Walter Pater
and the aesthetic movement, Hart Crane, and contemporary poetics, as well
as questions of race, gender, queer studies, and literary theory. After
eleven years as a comparative literature professor at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst (where he received the Chancellor’s Medal for
Distinguished Intellectual Service to the University) and a year and a
half as an English professor at the State University of New York at
Buffalo, Mr. Delany began as a professor of English and creative
writing at Temple University in January 2001.
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