Samuel r delany autobiography of benjamin

April 1, 1942

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Born in Harlem in comfortable circumstances, science fiction writer and critic Samuel R.

Delany graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and briefly attended City College of New York. Despite serious dyslexia, he embarked early on a literary career, publishing his first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, in 1962.

Delany has been a rather prolific writer, and by the time of his eighth novel, The Einstein Intersection (1967), he had already achieved star status in science fiction.

Samuel R. Delany is a profoundly influential and award-winning African-American gay author, critic, and teacher, whose many novels, short stories, memoirs, and.

Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.

Samuel Delany is known for his innovations in a number of genres and styles as well as his honest and frank discussions of sexuality and culture.

Delany's Dhalgren () moves through different genres and styles of literature in much the same way that Walter Benjamin's flaneur moves.

Delany also pioneered highly complex literary experiments that defy spacetime and entangle readers in the realia of other worlds.

He was the first African American to devote his career to this genre. Delany won the Nebula—one of science fiction's two most prestigious awards—in 1967, twice in 1968, and again in 1969. He received the other major science fiction award, the Hugo, in 1968 and 1989 (the latter for his autobiography).

Today, he is considered to be one of the wide-ranging masters of the field, having produced books of sword-and-sorcery fantasy as well as science fiction.