The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered
Encyclopedia
The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, edited by Tom Cardamone, includes appreciations by 28 contemporary writers of significant gay novels and short story collections now out of print. The Lost Library includes an essay on reprints of gay literature by Philip Clark. Published in March 2010, it features a cover illustration by Mel Odom
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Tom Cardamone
and was named one of the 10 Best nonfiction books of 2010 in Richard Labonte's Book Marks column.
Mel Odom (artist)
Mel Odom is an American artist who has created book covers for numerous novels, including a number of paperback editions of the novels of Patrick White, the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and several books by fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay such as The Fionavar Tapestry...
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Table of Contents
IntroductionTom Cardamone
- Rabih AlameddineRabih AlameddineRabih Alameddine is a Lebanese-American painter and writer. He was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze parents . He grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left...
, The Perv: Stories, Michael Graves - Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers, Christopher Bram
- Neil BartlettNeil Bartlett (playwright)Neil Vivian Bartlett, OBE, is an award-winning British director, performer, translator, and writer. He is one of the founding members of Gloria, a production company established in 1988 to produce his work along with that of Nicolas Bloomfield, Leah Hausman and Simon Mellor...
, Ready to Catch Him, Should He Fall, Philip Clark - George BaxtGeorge BaxtGeorge Baxt was a prolific American screenwriter and author of crime fiction, best remembered for creating the gay black detective, Pharoah Love.-Life and work:...
, A Queer Kind of Death, Larry Duplechan - Bruce BendersonBruce BendersonBruce Benderson is an American author, to Jewish parents of Russian descent, who lives in New York. He attended William Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University...
, User, Rob Stephenson - Christopher CoeChristopher CoeChristopher Coe was an American novelist.His first novel, I Look Divine, was published in 1987, his second, Such Times, in 1993....
, Such Times, Jameson Currier - Daniel CurzonDaniel CurzonDaniel Curzon is the pen name of Daniel R. Brown. He is the author of Something You Do in the Dark, first published by G. P. Putnam in 1971 and which may be considered as one of the first gay protest novels...
, Something You Do in the Dark, Jesse Monteagudo - Melvin DixonMelvin DixonMelvin Dixon was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator. He wrote about black gay men.-Biography:...
, Vanishing Rooms, Ian Rafael Titus - John Donovan, I’ll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip Martin Wilson
- Robert FerroRobert FerroRobert Ferro was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical fiction explored the uneasy integration of homosexuality and traditional American upper-middle-class values.-Biography:...
, The Blue Star, Stephen Greco - John Gilgun, Music I Never Dreamed Of, Wayne Courtois
- Agustin Gomez-ArcosAgustín Gómez-ArcosAgustin Gomez-Arcos was a Spanish writer. He was born in Enix, Spain. He studied law but quit university for theater. However, some of his work was banned in Franco's Spain. He emigrated to London in 1966, then to Paris in 1968 and wrote primarily in French, often with themes condemning the...
, The Carnivorous Lamb, Richard Reitsma - Michael GrumleyMichael Grumley-Biography:Grumley was born in Bettendorf, Iowa. He attended the University of Denver, the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers' Workshop Grumley received a B.S. Degree with a major in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on June 7, 1964....
, Life Drawing, Sam Miller - Lynn Hall, Sticks and Stones, Sean Meriwether
- Richard Hall, Couplings, Jonathan Harper
- J.S. MarcusJ.S. MarcusJ. S. Marcus is an American novelist.His work appeared in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal.-External links:...
, The Captain’s Fire, Aaron Hamburger - James McCourtJames McCourtJames McCourt is an English actor, singer, songwriter, radio DJ and television host. He has worked for BBC Radio Sheffield, been part of his own pop band and still writes songs for musical theatre shows....
, Time Remaining, Tim Young - Mark Merlis, American Studies, Rick Whitaker
- Charles Nelson, The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up, Jim Marks
- Kyle Onstott & Lance Horner, Child of the Sun, Michael Bronski
- Roger PeyrefitteRoger PeyrefitteRoger Peyrefitte was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and gossipy non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights.-Life and work:...
, The Exile of Capri, Gregory Woods - Paul Reed, Longing, Bill Brent
- Paul Rogers, Saul's Book, Paul Russell
- Patrick RoscoePatrick RoscoePatrick Roscoe is a novelist, short story writer, and actor.He spent his childhood in East Africa, was educated in England and Canada, and later lived in California and Mexico...
, Birthmarks, Andy Quan - Douglas SadownickDouglas Sadownick-Biography:Born in the Bronx, he attended Columbia College for his B.A., New York University for his graduate work in English, and the graduate program in clinical psychology at Antioch College in clinical psychology. He received his Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology in...
, Sacred Lips of the Bronx, Tom Cardamone - Glenway WescottGlenway WescottGlenway Wescott was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Wescott was gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.-Biography:Wescott was...
, The Apple of the Eye, Jerry Rosco - George WhitmoreGeorge Whitmore- Biography :George Whitmore lived in Manhattan.He was a member of The Violet Quill, the Gay Academic Union and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.Alongside his novels and non-fiction work, he wrote for the New York Times Magazine,the Advocate, the New York Native, and Christopher Street.- Bibliography...
, Nebraska, Victor Bumbalo - Donald WindhamDonald WindhamDonald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist. He is perhaps best known for his close friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Windham moved with his then-boyfriend Fred Melton, an artist, to New York City in 1939. Windham collaborated with Williams...
, Two People, Philip Gambone - Come Again: A History of the Reprinting of Gay Novels, Philip Clark
Contributors
Bibliography
Novels and Short Story Collections of Further Interest, Postscript 232
Awards
The Lost Library won the San Francisco Book Festival's gay category for best book of the Spring seasonand was named one of the 10 Best nonfiction books of 2010 in Richard Labonte's Book Marks column.