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FICTION: WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY, of New York City,"THE BLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS" presents you with its award for distinguished Fiction published in the United States in book form by a Black Author, that novel being DUNFORDS TRAVELS EVERYWHERE. Your novel tells in language wondrous strange of the surreality of Black experience. You traverse with Black spectrum and recreate us all, while imbuing us with a spirituality and mysticism rarely depicted. We know that you could not "speak or write these words without unrest of spirit." In Recognition of your achievement which is "not without laughter," and for taking a trail already being shared by other, young Black writers, "THE BLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS" honors you with its award of $500. September 19,1971 The Book Committee New York City Black Academy of Arts and Letters