Life and career Samuel R. Delany

at reading @ kitchen in june 2011

delany has identified gay since adolescence, though complicated marriage hacker (who aware of delany s orientation , has identified lesbian since divorce) has led authors classify him bisexual.

upon death of delany s father lung cancer in october, 1960 , marriage in august, 1961, , hacker settled in new york s east village neighborhood @ 629 east 5th street. due intervention of hacker (then employed assistant editor @ ace books), delany published science fiction author age of 20, though finished writing first novel (the jewels of aptor) while still 19 years old, shortly after dropping out of city college of new york after 1 semester. published 9 well-regarded science fiction novels between 1962 , 1968, 2 prize-winning short stories (collected in driftglass [1971] , later in aye, , gomorrah, , other stories [2002]). in 1966, hacker remaining in new york, delany took extended trip europe, spending several months in turkey , greece. these locales found way several pieces of work @ time, including novel nova , short stories aye, , gomorrah , dog in fisherman s net .

after returning europe, delany played , lived communally 6 months on lower east side heavenly breakfast, folk-rock band, 1 of members, bert lee, later founding member of central park sheiks; memoir of experiences heavenly breakfast , communal life published heavenly breakfast (1979). delany published first 8 novels ace books 1962 1967, culminating in babel-17 , einstein intersection, consecutively recognized year s best novel science fiction writers of america (nebula awards). first short story published frederik pohl in february 1967 issue of worlds of tomorrow , placed 3 more in other magazines year. after 4 short stories (including critically lauded time considered helix of semi-precious stones ) , nova published wide acclaim (the latter doubleday, marking delany s departure ace) in 1968 alone, extended interregnum in publication commenced until release of dhalgren (1975), abated 2 short stories, 2 comic book scripts, , minor erotic novel, tides of lust (1973). on new year s eve in 1968, delany , hacker moved san francisco, , again london in interim, before delany returned new york in summer of 1971 resident of albert hotel in greenwich village; december 1972 december 1974, delany , hacker cohabited in marylebone, london. in 1972, delany visiting writer @ wesleyan university s center humanities. during period, began working sexual themes in earnest , wrote 2 pornographic works, 1 of (hogg) considered unpublishable due nature of content. would, in fact, twenty years time delany finished writing novel before saw print.

delany wrote 2 issues of comic book wonder woman in 1972, during controversial period in publication s history when lead character abandoned superpowers , became secret agent. delany scripted issues #202 , #203 of series. delany supposed write six-issue story arc, culminate in battle on abortion clinic, story arc ended canceled after gloria steinem complained wonder woman no longer wearing traditional costume, change predating delany s involvement. scholar ann matsuuchi concluded steinem s feedback conveniently used excuse dc management.

delany s eleventh , popular novel, million-plus-selling dhalgren, published in 1975 both literary acclaim (from both inside , outside science fiction community) , derision (mostly within community). upon publication, delany returned united states @ behest of leslie fiedler teach @ university @ buffalo butler professor of english in spring of 1975, preceding permanent return new york city summer. though wrote 2 more major science fiction novels (triton , stars in pocket grains of sand) in decade following dhalgren, delany began work in fantasy , science fiction criticism several years. main literary project through late 1970s , 1980s return nevèrÿon series, overall title of 4 volumes , title of fourth , final book. following publication of return nevèrÿon series, delany published 1 more fantasy novel. released in 1993, fly @ Çiron re-written , expanded version of unpublished short story delany wrote in 1962. delany s last novel in either science fiction or fantasy genres many years.

delany has been professor @ several universities since 1988. following further visiting fellowships @ university of wisconsin–milwaukee (1977), university @ albany (1978), , cornell university (1987), spent 11 years professor of comparative literature @ university of massachusetts amherst, year , half english professor @ university @ buffalo, moved english department of temple university in 2001, taught until retirement in 2015. served critical inquiry visiting professor @ university of chicago during winter quarter of 2014.

beginning jewel-hinged jaw (1977), collection of critical essays applied then-nascent literary theory science fiction studies, has published several books of criticism, interviews, , essays. in memoir times square red, times square blue (1999), delany draws on personal experience examine relationship between effort redevelop times square , public sex lives of working-class men, gay , straight, in new york city.

he received bill whitehead award lifetime achievement publishing triangle in 1993.

an interview delany published in spring 2000 online edition of rain taxi.

in 2007, novel dark reflections winner of stonewall book award. same year delany subject of documentary film, polymath, or, life , opinions of samuel r. delany, gentleman, directed fred barney taylor. film debuted on april 25 @ 2007 tribeca film festival. following year, 2008, tied jury award best documentary @ international philadelphia lesbian , gay film festival. in 2007, delany april calendar boy in legends of village calendar put out village care of new york.

in 2010, delany 1 of 5 judges (along andrei codrescu, sabina murray, joanna scott, , carolyn see) national book awards fiction category.

his papers housed @ howard gotlieb archival research center.

since 1991, delany has been in committed nonexclusive relationship dennis rickett, homeless book vendor; courtship chronicled in graphic memoir bread , wine: erotic tale of new york (1999), collaboration writer , artist mia wolff. rickett , delany reside in walk-up apartment on new york s upper west side has maintained since 1975. after sixteen years, retired teaching @ temple university.

delany atheist.

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