SAMUEL R. DELANY
Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic who lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University, in Philadelphia. He is the author of Dhalgren (Bantam Books, 1975), Hogg (Black Ice Books, 1995), The Mad Man (Voyant Publishing, 1995), and the four books collectively known as Return to Nevèrÿon (Wesleyan University Press, 1993). The lecture included here became the basis for his best-selling Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (New York University Press, 1999).