About D. H. Melhem
Lived 1926 – 2013 (aged 86–87). D. H. Melhem was an American poet, novelist and writer.
Diana M. Vogel (19262013), known professionally as D. H. Melhem, was an American poet, novelist, and editor.
Life She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Nicholas Melhem and Georgette Deyrataui Melhem, both immigrants from Lebanon. She graduated from New York University cum laude and received her master's degree and a doctoral degree in English and American Literature from City College. She was a longtime resident of New York City, where her two children were born and raised. Melhem moved to Long Beach, California, in 2012, and lived there until her death on June 15, 2013.
Melhem was a close personal friend of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, about whom she wrote a biography, Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice.
Awards 1991: American Book Award
Works
Poetry
Poems for You (P&Q Press, 2000) Of Country (CCC, 1998)
Novels
Anthologies
Long Island Island Sounds (NSPS Press)
Criticism
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Who was D. H. Melhem?
American writer
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D. H. Melhem was born in 1926.
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D. H. Melhem died on 15 June 2013.
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D. H. Melhem was a poet, novelist and writer.
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