![]() He also briefly attended the City College of New York. ![]() He spent summers at progressive youth camps. He was educated at the prestigious Dalton School and Bronx High School of Science. Delany was born in Harlem, New York, on 1 April 1942. The courageous humility and pragmatism with which he treats his subjects, when considered alongside the virtuosity with which he writes, gesture at a cosmologically scaled multiplicity, the understanding of which is dependent on biography, a point rendered clear in his exquisite autobiography The Motion of Light in Water (1988). Delany is a Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) Grand Master. ![]() These explorations reach an apogee in Dhalgren (1975), a bestselling countercultural classic. ![]() His works have fundamentally altered the terrain of science fiction (SF) due in part to their formally consummate, theoretically sophisticated, materially grounded, and politically radical explorations of difference. ![]() Delany is a profoundly influential and award-winning African-American gay author, critic, and teacher, whose many novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays are among the most important of the 20th and 21st centuries. ![]()
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