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Author Biography

WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY

William Melvin Kelley's other books include the novels A Different Drummer, A Drop of Patience, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, and the short story collection, Dancers on the Shore. Kelley attended the Fieldston School and Harvard, where he studied under Archibald MacLeish and John Hawkes. He lives in Harlem, is a professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and regularly teaches seminars at the Taos Institute of Art in Taos, New Mexico.

Novels available in the Coffee House Press Black Arts Movement Series:

• Echo Tree: the Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
  by Heny Dumas, Edited and with a Foreword by Eugene B. Redmond, Critical Introduction by John S. Wright
• The Lakestown Rebellion
  by Kristin Lattany
• The Cotillion or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd
  by John Oliver Killens
• Bird at My Window
  by Rosa Guy
• Captain Blackman
  by John A. Williams