Kelley, William Melvin, 1937-2017

LC control no.	n 50048130
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3561.E392
Personal name heading	Kelley, William Melvin, 1937-2017 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	0000000108984997 49244542 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q8015558&oldid=629720548
Associated place	Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Located	Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Paris (France) Jamaica
Birth date	1937-11-01
Death date	2017-02-01
Place of birth	Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Place of death	Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Authors
Found in	His A different drummer, 1962. New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 9, 2017 (in obituary published Feb. 8: William Melvin Kelley; b. William Melvin Kelley Jr., Nov. 1, 1937, Staten Island; grew up in the North Bronx; d. Feb. 1, Manhattan, aged 79; brought a fresh, experimental voice to black fiction in novels and stories that used recurring characters to explore race relations and racial identity in the United States) New Yorker, Jan. 29, 2018: page 26 in an American Archives article entitled, Remainders (I didn't know who William Kelley was when I found that book but, like millions of Americans, I knew a term he is credited with first committing to print. "If you're woke, you dig it" read the headline of a 1962 Op-Ed Kelley published in the New York Times; ... Kelley first addressed these issues at length in his début novel, "A different drummer." Published three weeks after that Times Op-Ed, when he was twenty-four, it promptly earned him comparisons to William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and James Baldwin; the book also got him talked about, along with Alvin Ailey and James Earl Jones, as among the most talented African American artists of his generation. William Kelley was thirty-two when "dunfords travels everywheres" appeared. He wrote constantly for the next forty-seven years, never published another book, and died a year ago [in 2017], at the age of seventy-nine.)
Associated language	eng