William Melvin Kelley (November 1, 1937 – February 1, 2017) was an African-American novelist and short-story writer. He is perhaps best known for his...
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A Different Drummer is the 1962 debut novel of William Melvin Kelley. It won the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award and Rosenthal Foundation Award of the...
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William D. Kelley (1814–1890), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017), novelist and professor at Sarah Lawrence College, 2008...
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media mogul Yosuke Kawasaki – violinist Sinah Estelle Kelley – chemist William Melvin Kelley – author (A Different Drummer, Dunfords Travels Everywhere)...
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titled "If You're Woke You Dig It" by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of black slang by white beatniks....
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and draws heavily on the themes expressed by Thoreau. In 1962, William Melvin Kelley titled his first novel, A Different Drummer, after a famous quote...
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Joel Sternfeld, poet Suzanne Gardinier, novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist William Melvin Kelley, novelist Tao Lin, poet Marie Howe, film historians...
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(1922–1934) of the New York Amsterdam News, William Melvin Kelley Sr., and her mother was Gladys Caution Kelley, a probation officer. Her much younger brother...
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Lehner Hewitt, Jade D Benson/Denice Joan Deitch, Alex Londres, William Melvin Kelley, Marilynne Robinson, Ross McElwee, and Maxim D. Shrayer. Hawkes...
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John William Kelley (born March 9, 1963) is an American serial killer and rapist. Following his 2012 arrest for the 1986 rape-murder of a hitchhiker in...
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(1925–1986), poet Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907) William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017), novelist Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (1863–1938), novelist Randall Kenan...
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Award". anisfield-wolf.org. Retrieved May 6, 2023. "Obituary Note: William Melvin Kelley". Shelf Awareness. 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2022-04-06. "Charlayne...
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author of Up the Down Staircase about NYC schools in the 1950s William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017) – novelist, short-story writer, university professor...
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album by Buddy Rich A Different Drummer (novel), a 1962 novel by William Melvin Kelley Different Drummer (album), a 1987 album by Isley-Jasper-Isley Different...
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Brecha (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-10. Grimes, William (8 February 2017). "William Melvin Kelley, Who Explored Race in Experimental Novels, Is Dead...
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MacKenzie Bezos, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin Kelley, Joy Harjo and Tommy J. Curry. In 1980, the unrelated National Book Awards...
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1978), The Executor Jonathan Kellerman (born 1949), Flesh and Blood William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017), A Different Drummer Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), Tell...
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Paul Robeson, Noah D. Thompson, and A. Philip Randolph, author William Melvin Kelley, entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, poet Countee Cullen, and...
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Flying High). Cor van der Hoeven, 95, Dutch footballer (Ajax). William Melvin Kelley, 79, American novelist, complications from kidney failure. Basilio...
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Have Always Lived in the Castle James Jones – The Thin Red Line William Melvin Kelley – A Different Drummer Jack Kerouac – Big Sur Ken Kesey – One Flew...
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and curator (b. 1946) Mark Brownson, baseball player (b. 1975) William Melvin Kelley, novelist (b. 1937) Carter Manny, architect (b. 1918) Edward Tipper...
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Affairs analyst for ABC news Mark Helias, musician Marie Howe, poet William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short story writer Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner...
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General George Crook, and Major General William H. Emory. Melvin served as an adjutant and chief of staff to Kelley while he was in command of the garrison...
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Edward Barry Kelley (August 19, 1908 – June 5, 1991) was an American actor on Broadway in the 1930s and 1940s and in films during the 1940s, 1950s, and...
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List of Boston Legal characters (redirect from Melvin Palmer)
legal-comedy-drama created by David E. Kelley. The series, starring James Spader, with Candice Bergen, and William Shatner, was produced in association...
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Trudier Harris (category College of William & Mary faculty)
2008), pp. 300–306; "Salting the Land but Not the Imagination: William Melvin Kelley’s A Different Drummer" in Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 2, ed...
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Kelley Potenza is an American politician. She serves as a Republican member for the Strafford 19th district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives...
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television series The Practice (2002). Longtime writer-producer David E. Kelley said there was resistance when he first tried to cast Spader in the role...
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Boston Legal is an American legal drama-comedy (dramedy) created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for...
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portrayed in films such as Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), The FBI Story (1959) and Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974). Crime novelist Ace Atkins' 2010 book Infamous is based...
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