![]() ![]() He was born to a prominent black family on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Samuel Ray Delany, also known as "Chip," is an award-winning American science fiction author. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness, and he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to lesbian and gay literature. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including Dhalgren, other fiction including The Mad Man, as well as the best-selling nonfiction study Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction ![]() Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. ![]()
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