These locales found their way into several pieces of his work at that time, including the novel Nova and the short stories " Aye, and Gomorrah" and "Dog in a Fisherman's Net". In 1966, with Hacker remaining in New York, Delany took a five-month trip to Europe, writing The Einstein Intersection while in France, England, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. He published nine well-regarded science fiction novels between 19, as well as two prize-winning short stories (collected in Driftglass and later in Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories ). Hacker's intervention (while employed as an assistant editor at Ace Books), helped Delany become a published science fiction author by the age of 20, though he actually finished writing that first novel ( The Jewels of Aptor) while 19, shortly after dropping out of the City College of New York after one semester. Upon the death of Delany's father from lung cancer in October 1960 and his marriage in August 1961, he and Hacker settled in New York's East Village neighborhood at 629 East 5th Street. However, some observers have described Delany as bisexual due to his complicated 19-year marriage with poet/translator Marilyn Hacker, who was aware of Delany's orientation and has identified as a lesbian since their divorce. Decades later, Frederik Pohl called him "a person who is never addressed by his friends as Sam, Samuel or any other variant of the name his parents gave him." ĭelany attended the Dalton School and from 1951 through 1956, spent summers at Camp Woodland in Phoenicia, New York, followed by the Bronx High School of Science, during which he was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun, the Louis August Jonas Foundation's international summer scholarship program.ĭelany has identified as gay since adolescence. Delany envied children with nicknames and took one for himself on the first day of a new summer camp, Camp Woodland, at the age of 11, by answering "Everybody calls me Chip" when asked his name. The family lived in the top two floors of a three-story private house between five- and six-story Harlem apartment buildings. Other notable family members include Harlem Renaissance poet Clarissa Scott Delany and Hubert Thomas Delany, his aunt and uncle. His grandfather, Henry Beard Delany (1858-1928), was born as a slave, but became the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church. He used their adventures as the basis for Elsie and Corry in Atlantis: Model 1924, the opening novella in his semi-autobiographical collection Atlantis: Three Tales. Civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany were his aunts. (1906–1960), ran the Levy & Delany Funeral Home on 7th Avenue in Harlem, from 1938 until his death in 1960. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany (1916–1995), was a clerk in the New York Public Library system. was born on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Delany received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in 2013, and in 2016, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries. In 1997 he won the Kessler Award, and in 2010 he won the third J. From January 1975 until his retirement in May 2015, he was a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and/or Creative Writing at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Albany, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Temple University. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards over the course of his career, Delany was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002. His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays.
His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 19 respectively), Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.
His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.
Delany ( / d ə ˈ l eɪ n i/ ( pronounced "duh" + "LAY" + "nee") born April 1, 1942), nicknamed "Chip", is an American author and literary critic.
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