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Samuel R. Delany: Tuesday, September 10, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. CT
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Join us live for a virtual lecture by writer Samuel R. Delany followed by an audience Q&A.
In 2016, Samuel R. Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. A filmmaker, novelist, and critic, he is the author of Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, Nova, Dhalgren, Dark Reflections, Atlantis: Three Tales, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, the autobiography The Motion of Light in Water, and the paired essays Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award for 2008, and in 2015 he won the Nicolas Guillén Philosophical Literature Prize. In 1993 he won the Bill Whitehead Award, in 1997 the David R. Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies, and in 2021 the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Furthermore, he has won Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Convention. In 2013, he was made a Grand Master of Science Fiction, following in the steps of Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As e-books, paperbacks, or audiobooks, his works are available through his website at samueldelany.com.
Presented on the occasion of the exhibition In Your Face: Barbara DeGenevieve, Artist and Educator on view at the SAIC Galleries August 28–December 7. A related symposium will take place on September 14.
Photo credit: Dennis Rickett
Artist Website
Samuel R. Delany's website
How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City
Julian Lucas | The New Yorker | July 3, 2023
Samuel Delany, Grand Master of Afrofuturism
David Brazil | Hyperallergic | July 7, 2022
Writer Samuel R. Delany Reading in his Library
Nicole Rudick | The New York Times | April 21, 2022
The Wyrm
Samuel R. Delany | The Baffler | January 2022
Anisfield-Wolf: Samuel Delany On Writing and Racial Reckoning
David C. Barnett | ideastream public media | September 2, 2021
Samuel ‘Chip’ Delany, Author and Genius
Sam Moskowitz | Village Preservation | April 1, 2021
Why I Write: Getting ready not to be
Samuel R. Delany | The Yale Review | December 1, 2020
Sex in the Theater: Jeremy O. Harris and Samuel Delany in Conversation
Toniann Fernandez | The Paris Review | February 26, 2020
SAMUEL DELANY ON CAPITALISM, RACISM, AND SCIENCE FICTION
John Plotz | Public Books | August 6, 2019
Samuel R. Delany
Virtual Memories Show [Podcast] | April 3, 2017 | Watch the YouTube version for closed captions (no episode transcript available)
Samuel R. Delany
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Archives at Yale: Samuel R. Delany papers
The collection consists of writings, correspondence, personal papers, printed material, photographs, artwork, professional papers, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other papers documenting the work and life of Samuel R. Delany.
Visiting Artists Program Lecture Recordings from the Archive
SAIC Visiting Artists Program video and audio lecture recordings (1977–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.
SAIC Digital Collections: Visiting Artists Program
SAIC Visiting Artists Program publicity archive and audio recordings (1977–98).