Melvin Dixon
Melvin Dixon (May 29, 1950 – October 26, 1992) was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator. He wrote about black gay men.
Melvin Dixon
- Name
- Melvin Dixon
- Born
- 29 May 1950
- Birthplace
- Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
- Died
- 26 October 1992
- Education
- Wesleyan University Brown University
- Occupation
- Academic
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Melvin Dixon • Born — 29 May 1950 • Birthplace — Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. • Died — 26 October 1992 • Place of death — Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. • Education — Wesleyan University Brown University • Employer — Queens College • Occupation — Academic • Partner — Richard Horovitz
Early life
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.
Career
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. Vanishing Rooms won a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature in 1992.
Death
Death
Dixon died of complications from AIDS, which he had been battling since 1989, in his hometown, one year after his partner Richard Horovitz.
Textbooks
Textbooks
• Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (1987)..
Novels
Novels
• Trouble the Water (1989) • Vanishing Rooms (1990)
Collection of poems
Collection of poems
• Change of Territory (1983) • Love's Instruments (1995, posthumous) Heartbeat
Collection of essays
Collection of essays
• A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (2010)
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