William Melvin Kelley

Harvard College. Fiction writer and video maker; author of A Different Drummer, Dancers on the Shore, A Drop of Patience, dem, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, and stories and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Esquire, Mademoiselle, and Saturday Evening Post; awards and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. SLC, 1989–