Steve Kluger is an American author and playwright.

Kluger's writing is noted for its baseball, gay, and historical (particularly Second World War) themes.

Beyond his writing, he has also worked on civil rights, gay rights, and baseball community causes, including the campaign to save Fenway Park

Fenway Park

Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is one of two "classic"...

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Kluger also has written editorials for newspapers including USA Today

USA Today

USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...

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Novels

• Changing Pitches (1984)
• Last Days of Summer
  Last Days of Summer
  Last Days of Summer is 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings....
  
  (1998)
• Almost Like Being in Love
  Almost Like Being in Love (book)
  Almost Like Being in Love is a 2004 gay-fiction romance novel by author Steve Kluger. Like his previous novel Last Days of Summer, Almost Like Being in Love is an epistolary novel; the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus,...
  
  (2004)
• My Most Excellent Year (2008)

Plays

• Bullpen (1984)
• Cafe 50's (1988)
• Pilots of the Purple Twilight (1989)
• After Dark (2001)

See also

• Eddie Frierson
  Eddie Frierson
  Edward Davies "Eddie" Frierson is an American voice actor and stage actor who is also known as Christy Mathewson, Ted Richards, and Eric Frierson Edward Davies "Eddie" Frierson (born November 22, 1959) is an American voice actor and stage actor who is also known as Christy Mathewson, Ted Richards,...