![]() ![]() Education: Attended City College (now City University of New York), 1960-63. He continued writing and in 1960, received a At a Glance …īorn April 1, 1942, in New York, NY son of Samuel Ray (a funeral director) and Margaret Carey (a library clerk maiden name, Boyd) Delany married Marilyn (a poet) Hacker, Aug(divorced, 1980) children: Iva Alyxander. They both won numerous high school literary awards and coedited Dynamo. At BHSS Delany met poet Marilyn Hacker, whom he would marry in 1961. ![]() ![]() While at BHSS he concentrated on math and physics, but he was also interested in music and the arts, writing a complete violin concerto when he was 14 playing the guitar and studying acting and ballet. There he began publishing his prize-winning short stories in the school magazine, Dynamo, and completed many unpublished novels. When Delany graduated from Dalton in 1956, he attended Bronx High School of Science (BHSS). He spent his childhood summers at private camps and at his family ’s summer home in Hopewell Junction. During his last year at Dalton, Delany was voted most popular in his class. His friends in Harlem came from working-class backgrounds while his friends at Dalton were from some of the most prominent families in New York City. Throughout his early schooling, Delany moved between two worlds. ’s education at the predominantly white Dalton Elementary School, where he was taken each morning in his father ’s chauffeured black Cadillac.Īlthough young Delany suffered from dyslexia, it was not diagnosed properly until he was in high school as a result, he was given remedial assignments at Dalton. The Delany family ’s financial security provided for Samuel, Jr. owned Levy and Delany Funeral Associations his wife, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a licensed funeral director and worked as a clerk in the New York Public Library. ”ĭelany was born in Harlem, New York, in 1942 to parents who were prominent in the Harlem community. ![]() Author Felice Picano, writing in Publishing Triangle, noted that it is “difficult to assess Delany ’s influence upon science fiction writers and readers and equally difficult to assess how deeply and widely he has influenced all of literature ’s openness to the world of gay men and to people of color. Since the 1962 publication of The Jewels of Aptor when he was 20 years old, Delany has been increasingly recognized as one of the stylistic pioneers of science fiction writing his short stories and novels have received many honors, including the distinguished Hugo and Nebula awards. “Chip ” Delany has to his credit more than 20 novels and numerous collections of short stories, memoirs, and critical essays on the writing of science fiction. As an African American raised in Harlem and educated in some of the most prestigious schools in New York City, Samuel R. ![]()
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