![]() ![]() ![]() He received intensive tutoring and therapy for this from age eight to 16.ĭelany married poet Marilyn Hacker in 1961. Throughout his life, he has experienced extreme dyslexia affecting his writing but not his reading. He enrolled in the City College of New York but did not earn a degree. He was accepted to the Dalton School, an elite, primarily white prep school and later attended the Bronx High School of Science. When Samuel was five years old, his mother accompanied him to the Vassar Summer Institute for the Gifted. His paternal grandfather was Bishop Henry Beard Delany, the first black Bishop of the Episcopal Church. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a Senior Clerk at the New York Public Library. ![]() His father, Samuel Ray Delany Sr., from Raleigh, North Carolina, owned the Levy & Delany Funeral Home. He has published over 40 works.ĭelany was born on Apin Manhattan, New York. He transformed the field in the 1960s and 1970s with daring and visionary novels. He is the first major African American science fiction writer as well as one of the most influential writers of this genre in the United States. ![]() Delany Jr., “Chip,” is an award-winning African American gay writer, editor, professor, and literary critic. ![]()
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