Melvin Dixon
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Early life
Melvin Dixon was born on May 29, 1950, in Stamford, Connecticut. He earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1971 and a PhD from Brown University in 1975.[3]
Career
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Death
Dixon died of complications from AIDS, which he had been battling since 1989, in his hometown, one year after his partner Richard Horovitz.[5]
Bibliography
Collection of poems
- Change of Territory (1983)
- Love's Instruments (1995, posthumous)
Heartbeat
Textbooks
- Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (1987)
Novels
- Trouble the Water (1989)
- Vanishing Rooms (1990)
Collection of essays
- A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (2010)
References
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