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Don Belton (Donald Cornelius Belton) was born on 7 August, 1958 in Philadelphia, PA., is an African American author, editor and teacher. Discover Don Belton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

Popular As Donald Cornelius Belton
Occupation Author, professor
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 7 August, 1958
Birthday 7 August
Birthplace Philadelphia, PA.
Date of death 27 December, 2009
Died Place Bloomington, Indiana
Nationality United States

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1956

Donald Cornelius Belton (August 7, 1956 – December 27, 2009) was an openly gay African-American author, editor and teacher.

Don Belton was born on August 7, 1956, to Charles and Dora Belton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Belton was raised by his grandmother in Newark, New Jersey.

He received a scholarship to attend William Penn Charter School.

While attending Bennington College Belton befriended James Baldwin, who encouraged him to write.

1981

He earned a B.A. from Bennington in 1981 and went on to receive an M.A. in creative writing from Hollins College in 1982.

Belton worked as a reporter for Newsweek magazine.

1986

In 1986 Belton's first novel, Almost Midnight was published by Beech Tree Books.

Almost Midnight has been described as a "magical tale" chronicling the life of a preacher through the recollections of three women.

W. Lawrence Hogue describes the novel as having been misunderstood by mainstream critics at the time of its publication and that Almost Midnight, like other novels Montgomery's Children by Richard H. Perry or Darryl Pinckney's High Cotton, did not fit the "aesthetic, political, and ideological criteria" of the canon of African American literature at the time.

Critics have recently begun to consider Almost Midnight as a voodoo or hoodoo novel.

1995

Belton's anthology Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream was published by Beacon Press in 1995.

Critics have called it "brilliant, bold" and "important" for celebrating black masculinity.

2005

In 2005 Belton's essay "Where We Live: A Conversation with Essex Hemphill and Isaac Julien" was anthologized in the Lambda Award-winning volume Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present.

Belton taught creative writing at Temple University, Shippensburg University, the University of Michigan, Macalester College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Indiana University, Bloomington.

2009

In the fall of 2009 he began a tenure track position at Indiana University.

On December 28, 2009, Belton was found dead in his home in Bloomington, Indiana.

2010

In 2010 Belton's manuscripts and ephemera, consisting of around 25,000 items, were acquired by the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

This collection includes notebooks, correspondences with Chinua Achebe, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Jonathan Lethem, among others, as well as a preserved alligator head filed with flashcards, used as a teaching tool.

Belton's personal library was acquired by the English Department at Indiana University, Indiana University Food Studies Department, as well as the Kinsey Institute Library.

"The major themes of the work of African American writer and editor Don Belton include the gulf between real and represented masculinity, the impossibility of living without love, and home and the quest for sanctuary. His friendships with black gay writers James Baldwin, Melvin Dixon, Randall Kenan, Essex Hemphill and the filmmaker Marlon Riggs influenced the exploration of the potential of a range of caring relationships between men in his writing."

– Emmanuel S. Nelson, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States

Uncollected works

2011

Ex-Marine Michael Griffin confessed to stabbing Belton and was convicted of murder in 2011.

Shortly after Belton's death the website justicefordonbelton.com was established to commemorate Belton's life and work and as "a place to monitor the progress of the criminal case and the media coverage of this horrific act of violence against a member of our community."

At the time of his death Belton was working on a second novel.