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Full Name: Melvin Dixon
Biography:
(1950-1992) Novelist, poet.
Author's Timeline:
1950 (Unknown) County
Melvin Dixon was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 29, 1950. 
1980 Queens County
Mr. Dixon was a professor of English at Queens College in Flushing, New York, from 1980 to 1992.  
1992 (Unknown) County
Melvin Dixon died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, on October 26, 1992. 
1983 (Unknown) County
Change of Territory
(Pub: University of Kentucky Press ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1989 (Unknown) County
Trouble the Water
(Pub: University of Colorado / Fiction Collective Two ISBN: 0932511236 / 978-0932511232)
Novel. Winner of the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award in 1989. 
1990 (Unknown) County
Vanishing Rooms
(Pub: NAL-Dutton ISBN: 0525249656 / 978-0525249658)
Novel. Winner of a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature in 1992. 
1995 (Unknown) County
Love's Instruments
(Pub: Tia Chucha ISBN: 1882688074 / 978-1882688074)
Poetry. 
2006 (Unknown) County
A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
(Pub: University Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1578068665 / 978-1578068661)
Essays. Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride. 
1987 (Unknown) County
Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature
(Pub: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252014146 / 978-0252014147)
Textbook. 

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