Melvin Dixon
Melvin Dixon | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 29, 1950 Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | October 26, 1992 (aged 42) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University Brown University |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Employer | Queens College |
| Partner | Richard Horovitz |
Melvin Dixon (May 29, 1950 – October 26, 1992[1]) was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator. He wrote about black gay men.[2]
Early life
Melvin Dixon was born on May 29, 1950, in Stamford, Connecticut. He earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1971 and a PhD from Brown University in 1975.[3]
Career
Dixon was a professor of literature at Queens College from 1980 to 1992. He was the author of several books. In 1989, Trouble the Water won the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award.[4] Vanishing Rooms won a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature in 1992.[5][6]
Death
Dixon died of complications from AIDS, which he had been battling since 1989, in his hometown, one year after his partner Richard Horovitz.[7]
Bibliography
Collection of poems
- Change of Territory (1983)
- Love's Instruments (1995, posthumous)
Heartbeat
Textbooks
- Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (1987). ISBN 978-0-252-01414-7.
Novels
- Trouble the Water (1989)
- Vanishing Rooms (1990)
Collection of essays
- A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (2010)
References
- ↑ Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (1999). Contemporary African American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 129–136. ISBN 0-313-30501-3.
- ↑ A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader, ed. Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride, University Press of Mississippi, 2006
- ↑ "Melvin Dixon, 42, Professor and Author". New York Times. 29 October 1992. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ↑ Kennedy, Constance Decker (24 September 1989). "University Presses/In Short; Fiction". New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Ferro-Grumley Award". The Ferro-Grumley Award. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
- ↑ "The Ferro-Grumley Awards". The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
- ↑ "Richard Horovitz, 44, Foundation Executive". New York Times. 20 July 1991. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
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