Plutzik features Samuel Delany

Delany

amuel Delany, a noted writer whose body of work ranges from science fiction to literary criticism, will give a reading at 8 p.m. Monday, March 1, in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library as part of the Plutzik Reading Series at the University.

Born in 1942 in Harlem, Delany published his first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, in 1962. His recent works include the nonfiction books Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and 1984: Selected Letters; fiction works such as Atlantis: Three Tales and The Mad Man; and republished science fiction classics including Dhalgren, Babel-17, and Nova. With more than 35 books to his credit, Delany is considered by many to be one of the preeminent contemporary African-American novelists and science fiction writers.

A multiple winner of science fiction's highest honors, the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Delany was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2002. He is the recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay and Lesbian Writing and currently teaches creative writing at Temple University.

Administered by the Department of English, the Plutzik Series is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary reading programs and has featured more than 175 noted writers, including Booker Prize recipient Salman Rushdie and Pulitzer Prize winners Anthony Hecht, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wilbur, and Galway Kinnell. Delany's reading is cosponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and is free and open to the public. For more information, call x5-4092.

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