Melvin Dixon (May 29, 1950 – October 26, 1992[1]) was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator.
[2] Melvin Dixon was born on May 29, 1950, in Stamford, Connecticut.
In 1989, Trouble the Water won the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award.
[4] Vanishing Rooms won a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature in 1992.
[citation needed] Dixon died of complications from AIDS, which he had been battling since 1989, in his hometown, one year after his partner Richard Horovitz.