Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. "Chip" Delany is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction, memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society. His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection ; Hogg, Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays. He has won four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards, and he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002.

1 April 1942

Born on the same birth date (1 April 1942): Richard D. Wolff

Born on the same birth day (1 April): Andreas Thorkildsen • Arrigo Sacchi • Barry Sonnenfeld • Bob Van Osdel • Etan Thomas • Gideon Gadot • Gilberto Macena • Humayun Akhtar Khan • Oliver Turvey • Paul Manafort • Payut Ngaokrachang • Phillip Schofield • Pieter Hellendaal • Rhian Brewster • Samboy Lim • Vitorino Antunes

Born in the same month (April 1942): Barbra Streisand • Carlos Reutemann • Francis X. DiLorenzo • Leon Russell • Marsha Mason • Mary Prior • Michael Beloff • Michael Kergin • Pascal Couchepin • Richard M. Daley • Ruth Glick • Tim Lankester • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford • Valentin Lebedev