Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (With: Mia Wolff)
1999
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
1977
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction
1978
Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love
1979
Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
1984
The Motion of Light in Water
1988
Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions
1988
The Straits of Messina
1989
Silent Interviews
1994
Longer Views
1996
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
1999
Shorter Views
1999
1984: Selected Letters
2000
About Writing
2005
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969
2017
Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters
2019
Occasional Views, Volume 1: “More About Writing” and Other Essays
2021
Of Solids and Surds
2021
Occasional Views, Volume 2: “The Gamble” and Other Essays
2021
The Edge of Language: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 2, 1969-1979
2027
About Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany (born 1 April 1942) is an American novelist, critic and memoirist, best known for the science fiction novels “Babel-17”, “The Einstein Intersection”, “Nova” and “Dhalgren” and for the Return to Nevèrÿon fantasy series. He has won four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002.
Delany was born and raised in Harlem, New York, where his father ran a funeral home and his mother worked as a library clerk. He attended the Dalton School and the Bronx High School of Science, then left the City College of New York after one semester. In 1961 he married the poet Marilyn Hacker, who was working as an assistant editor at Ace Books, and Ace published his first novel, “The Jewels of Aptor”, in 1962, when he was 20.
The Fall of the Towers trilogy followed, and “Babel-17” and “The Einstein Intersection” won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in consecutive years. His story “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” won both the Hugo and the Nebula. “Dhalgren” (1975), his eleventh novel, divided opinion within science fiction and sold more than a million copies. “Triton” and “Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand” came in the decade after it.
From 1979 to 1987 his main project was Return to Nevèrÿon, four volumes of sword and sorcery tales. Later fiction includes “The Mad Man”, “Hogg” (written in the 1970s but unpublished until 1995), “Dark Reflections”, which won a Stonewall Book Award, and “Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders” (2012). His memoir “The Motion of Light in Water” won a Hugo Award, and his critical books began with “The Jewel-Hinged Jaw” in 1977.
Delany taught for four decades, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University at Buffalo and Temple University, retiring in 2015. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 2013, and he received a World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement in 2022. A second volume of his journals, “The Edge of Language”, is scheduled for publication by Wesleyan University Press in April 2027.
