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Melvin Dixon, a novelist, poet, and author of a text-book on Black American literature, dies in his Stamford, Connecticut, home from complications related to AIDS.
1992 (Oct 29)
Melvin Dixon, a novelist, poet, and author of a text-book on Black American literature, died in his Stamford, Connecticut, home from complications related to AIDS. He was forty-two. An English professor at Queens College in New York, Dixon was noted for his translation of French literature to English. His translations included the Selected Poems of Leopold Senghor, by the longtime president of Senegal The Senghor translation was published by the University Press of Virginia in 1990. Dixon's own writings included Trouble in the Water, his first novel, which won the Minority Fiction Award in 1989. He also wrote a volume of poetry called Change of Territory and a second novel, Vanishing Rooms.
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- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.