William Melvin Kelley

William Melvin Kelley was a prominent African-American novelist and short-story writer.He was educated at the Fieldston School in New York and later attended Harvard University (class of 1960), where he won the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing.Kelley was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at the New School for Social Research and at Sarah Lawrence College.In 2008, he won the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.Kelley died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017. He was 79.