Andrew Holleran
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Short story
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writer. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall
Stonewall riots
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gay
Gay
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literature. He was a member of The Violet Quill
The Violet Quill
The Violet Quill was a group of seven gay male writers that met in 1980 and 1981 in New York City to read from their writings to each other and to critique them...
, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81. The Violet Quill included other prolific gay writers like Edmund White
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
and Felice Picano
Felice Picano
Felice Picano is an American writer. He graduated cum laude from Queens College in 1964 with English department honors. He founded SeaHorse Press in 1977, and The Gay Presses of New York in 1981 with Terry Helbing and Larry Mitchell; he was Editor-in-Chief there. He was an editor and writer for...
. Garber, who has historically been very protective of his privacy, uses "Andrew Holleran" as his pseudonym
Pseudonym
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.
Dancer from the Dance
Dancer from the Dance
Dancer from the Dance is a 1978 novel by Andrew Holleran about gay men in New York City, United States.-Plot summary:The novel revolves around two main characters: Anthony Malone, a young man from the Midwest who leaves behind his "straight" life as a lawyer to immerse himself in the gay life of...
, his first novel, was published in 1978. Its narrative takes place among the discotheques of New York City
New York City
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and Fire Island, although it is Fire Island, with its literal distance from the mainland, that provides a pivotal backdrop for the novel. Dancer shares many of its locales, as well as its themes, with Faggots
Faggots (novel)
Faggots is a novel by Larry Kramer, published in 1978.It is a portrayal of 1970's New York's most visible gay community in a time before AIDS.The novel's gay culture is one of nameless sex and recreational drugs.-Reception:...
, Larry Kramer's
Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer is an American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for Women in Love in 1969, earning...
novel, published in the same year.
Holleran's second novel was Nights in Aruba, and his third is titled The Beauty of Men
The Beauty of Men
The Beauty of Men is about Lark, a 47-year-old single gay man, who has moved to Florida to help care for his mother who became paralyzed after a fall.At times he has to remind himself, She fell, I didn't. But it doesn't matter. She fell on him...
. The Beauty of Men
The Beauty of Men
The Beauty of Men is about Lark, a 47-year-old single gay man, who has moved to Florida to help care for his mother who became paralyzed after a fall.At times he has to remind himself, She fell, I didn't. But it doesn't matter. She fell on him...
takes place in central Florida where the main character, a 47-year-old gay man, has gone to take care of his quadriplegic mother. Holleran's Grief: a Novel received the 2007 Stonewall Book Award
Stonewall Book Award
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Holleran teaches creative writing at American University
American University
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in Washington, DC, and he continues to publish short fiction in gay short story collections like M2M: New Literary Fiction and frequently publishes articles in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
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He graduated from Harvard College in 1965.
Works
- Dancer from the DanceDancer from the DanceDancer from the Dance is a 1978 novel by Andrew Holleran about gay men in New York City, United States.-Plot summary:The novel revolves around two main characters: Anthony Malone, a young man from the Midwest who leaves behind his "straight" life as a lawyer to immerse himself in the gay life of...
(1978) - Nights in Aruba (1983)
- Ground ZeroGround Zero (book)Ground Zero is a book of essays by Andrew Holleran. The title refers to a catastrophic disaster in Lower Manhattan, namely the havoc wrought by AIDS in the 1980s among gay men. Holleran's essays are by turns thoughtful, reflective, angry, frustrated, and mournful in the extreme...
, essays (1988) - The Beauty of MenThe Beauty of MenThe Beauty of Men is about Lark, a 47-year-old single gay man, who has moved to Florida to help care for his mother who became paralyzed after a fall.At times he has to remind himself, She fell, I didn't. But it doesn't matter. She fell on him...
(1996) - In September, The Light Changes, stories (1999)
- Grief: a Novel (2006)
External links
- An Interview with Andrew Holleran by Paul Morton Bookslut March 2007
- Necropolitan Life - Review of Grief in the Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine
- Andrew Holleran - Burn This - An Article in the Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine
- Andrew Holleran - In Your Face - An Article in the Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine