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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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