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In African American literature: The turn of the 21st century
…a Hugo for the autobiographical The Motion of Light in Water (1988). The voices of novelist John Edgar Wideman (who twice won the PEN/Faulkner Award given by the international writers’ organization Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists [PEN]) and his incarcerated brother Robby in Brothers and Keepers (1984), one of…
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In Samuel R. Delany
Delany’s other autobiographical books include The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957–1965 (1988), about his childhood and the beginning of his writing career, which won a Hugo Award; and Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (1999), a memoir…
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