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- Author: William Melvin Kelley
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In addition to his novels, for which he is primarily known, William Melvin Kelley is the author of a collection of short stories, Dancers on the Shore (1964). Some of these stories were written before his first novel, and almost all introduce characters, themes, and ideas that appear in later works. A 1997 New Yorker story, “Carlyle Tries Polygamy: How Many Are Too Many?” reveals that, despite almost thirty years of nearly complete fiction-publication silence, Kelley maintained interest in creatively pursuing some of the personages and...
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