The family lived in the top two floors of a three-story private house between five- and six-story Harlem apartment buildings. Other notable family members include Harlem Renaissance poet Clarissa Scott Delany and Hubert Thomas Delany, his aunt and uncle.
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His grandfather, Henry Beard Delany (1858-1928), was born as a slave, but became the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church. He used their adventures as the basis for Elsie and Corry in Atlantis: Model 1924, the opening novella in his semi-autobiographical collection Atlantis: Three Tales. Civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany were his aunts. (1906–1960), ran the Levy & Delany Funeral Home on 7th Avenue in Harlem, from 1938 until his death in 1960. His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany (1916–1995), was a clerk in the New York Public Library system. was born on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Delany received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in 2013, and in 2016, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries. In 1997 he won the Kessler Award, and in 2010 he won the third J. From January 1975 until his retirement in May 2015, he was a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and/or Creative Writing at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Albany, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Temple University. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards over the course of his career, Delany was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002. His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays.
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His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 19 respectively), Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society. Delany ( / d ə ˈ l eɪ n i/ ( pronounced "duh" + "LAY" + "nee") born April 1, 1942), nicknamed "Chip", is an American author and literary critic.