Sam D'Allesandro, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSam D'Allesandro
American writer
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1956
Date of Death: 03-Feb-1988
Profession: poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Sam D'Allesandro
- Sam D’Allesandro (born Richard Anderson) (April 3, 1956 – February 3, 1988) was an American writer and poet.
- He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and came to San Francisco as a young man in the early 1980s and published a book of elegant lyrics, Slippery Sins. D'Allesandro was a member of the so-called "New Narrative" writers, which included Robert GlĂĽck, Bruce Boone, Steve Abbott and others.
- He reached out to other like-minded writers and contacted Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Benjamin Weissman, David Trinidad, and Dodie Bellamy.
- With Bellamy he began an epistolary collaboration she was later to publish as Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D’Allesandro.
- A gay man, D'Allesandro died of AIDS in 1988, aged 31, leaving behind a body of work that ranges across various genre identities, from stories of one paragraph to fully developed novellas.
- He is also the author of The Wild Creatures, which was published posthumously in 2005, edited by Bellamy's husband Kevin Killian.
- He is mentioned in Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott.
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