Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Aldon Lynn Nielsen (born in 1950 in Grand Island, Nebraska) is an American poet, and literary critic.

Life
He was raised in the District of Columbia, where he graduated from the Federal City College and from the George Washington University, with a Ph.D. He taught at Howard University, San Jose State University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University. He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the Pennsylvania State University.

He lives in California with his wife, Anna Everett, an eemritus professor at U.C. Santa Barbara. Nielsen loves to wear hats and owns several tablets.

Awards

 * Larry Neal Award for poetry
 * two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovation.
 * SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities, for Reading Race
 * Josephine Miles Award, for Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
 * American Book Award for Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition
 * Darwin Turner Award

Poetry

 * Heat Strings
 * Evacuation Routes, Score, 1994

Criticism

 * (reprint)
 * Writing between the Lines
 * Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
 * Writing between the Lines
 * Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
 * Writing between the Lines
 * Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
 * Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation