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Bio

(1950-1992) Novelist, poet.

Full Name

Melvin Dixon

Locations

Queens

Author's Timeline

1950

BIRTH

Melvin Dixon was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 29, 1950.

1980

OTHER

Mr. Dixon was a professor of English at Queens College in Flushing, New York, from 1980 to 1992.

1983

LITWORK

Change of Territory
University of Kentucky Press

Poetry.

1987

LITWORK

Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature
University of Illinois Press
0252014146 / 978-0252014147
Textbook.

1989

LITWORK

Trouble the Water
University of Colorado / Fiction Collective Two
0932511236 / 978-0932511232
Novel. Winner of the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award in 1989.

1990

LITWORK

Vanishing Rooms
NAL-Dutton
0525249656 / 978-0525249658
Novel. Winner of a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature in 1992.

1992

DEATH

Melvin Dixon died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, on October 26, 1992.

1995

LITWORK

Love's Instruments
Tia Chucha
1882688074 / 978-1882688074
Poetry.

2006

LITWORK

A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
University Press of Mississippi
1578068665 / 978-1578068661
Essays. Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride.

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