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William Melvin Kelley

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: October 31 1937

Died: 3131 01 20172017

William Melvin Kelley was a prominent African-American novelist and short-story writer.

He was educated at the Fieldston School in New York and later attended Harvard University , where he won the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing.

Kelley was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at the New School for Social Research and at Sarah Lawrence College.

In 2008, he won the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.

Kelley died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017. He was 79.

William Melvin Kelley

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: October 31 1937

Died: 3131 01 20172017

William Melvin Kelley was a prominent African-American novelist and short-story writer.

He was educated at the Fieldston School in New York and later attended Harvard University , where he won the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing.

Kelley was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at the New School for Social Research and at Sarah Lawrence College.

In 2008, he won the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.

Kelley died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017. He was 79.

Books from William Melvin Kelley

A Different Drummer

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Best American Essays 2013

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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A Drop of Patience

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Dancers on the Shore

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Dunfords Travels Everywheres

3.6/5 ( ratings)

A Visit to Grandmother

Ein Tropfen Geduld

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Dem

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Dancers on the Shore

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A Drop of Patience

3.8/5 ( ratings)

dem

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Le Serpent À Plumes #14

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker

3.8/5 ( ratings)