Samuel R. Delany Lecture

Left: Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren, Bantam Books, 1975. Cover art by Dean Ellis. Right: Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, Magnus Books, 2011. Cover art by Mia Wolf

Join us for a virtual lecture by writer Samuel R. Delany followed by an audience Q & A.

Click HERE to join via Zoom at 6:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Explore the Visiting Artists Program homepage for recordings of past events and more.

In 2016, Samuel R. Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. A filmmaker, novelist, and critic, he is the author of Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, Nova, Dhalgren, Dark Reflections, Atlantis: Three Tales, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, the autobiography The Motion of Light in Water, and the paired essays Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award for 2008, and in 2015 he won the Nicolas Guillén Philosophical Literature Prize. In 1993 he won the Bill Whitehead Award, in 1997 the David R. Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies, and in 2021 the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Furthermore, he has won Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Convention. In 2013, he was made a Grand Master of Science Fiction, following in the steps of Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As e-books, paperbacks, or audiobooks, his works are available through his website at samueldelany.com.

Presented on the occasion of the exhibition In Your Face: Barbara DeGenevieve, Artist and Educator on view at the SAIC Galleries September 13–December 7. A related symposium will take place on September 14.

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