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DON BELTON

| (dbelton@indiana.edu) Don Belton is the author of the novel, ALMOST MIDNIGHT (Morrow: 1986). He is the editor of the anthology, SPEAK MY NAME: BLACK MEN ON MASCULINITY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM (Beacon: 1996). His short stories have appeared in the AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE FORUM, INDIANA REVIEW, and BREAKING ICE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF COMTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION (Penguin/Viking). He has written for NEWSWEEK, the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, ADVOCATE, UTNE READER, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Belton has lectured in the Ivory Coast (sponsored by ARTS America/United States Information Agency), at the Sorbonne, and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has taught literature and fiction writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Bennington College, and the University of Pennsylvania. His awards include a Lila Wallace International Travel and Research Grant, a Bellagio/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Artists Colony Fellowship, and a Dance Advance/Pew Charitable Trust Grant for Dramaturgy. |
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