As per our current Database, Melvin Dixon is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Melvin Dixon is 73 years, 10 months and 30 days old. Melvin Dixon will celebrate 74rd birthday on a Wednesday 29th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Melvin Dixon upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Melvin Dixon |
Occupation | Poet |
Age | 73 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | May 29, 1950 (Connecticut) |
Birthday | May 29 |
Town/City | Connecticut |
Nationality | Connecticut |
Melvin Dixon’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Melvin Dixon was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
An American professor, author, poet, and translator, he is known for novels such as Vanishing Rooms and Trouble the Water. Many of his works discuss the lives of gay, African-American men.
He earned a BA from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
His novel, Trouble the Water, won the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award.
He died in his forties from complications of AIDS, after having spent many years with his partner, Richard Horovitz.
He taught at Queens College, where Stephen Fry once studied literature.