Bo Huston

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Bo Huston
Born1959
Died1993
San Francisco, California
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Period1990s
Notable worksDream Life, The Listener
SpouseDan Carmell (1987–1993)

Bo Huston (1959–1993) [1] was an American writer. [2]

He was briefly a film student at New York University in the early 1980s, but withdrew from the program and worked in typesetting. [2] Moving to San Francisco in 1987, he took a typesetting job with an advertising agency and met his longterm partner Dan Carmell, [2] but left the advertising job in 1988 after being diagnosed HIV-positive and devoted the remainder of his life to writing. [2] He was a regular columnist for the San Francisco Bay Times , [2] was a cofounder of the LGBT literary conference Out/Write, [2] and published his first short story collection Horse and Other Stories in 1990. [2] He followed up with the novels Remember Me in 1991 [3] and Dream Life in 1992. [4]

He died of AIDS in 1993. [2] A collection of short stories, The Listener, was posthumously published in 1993. [5]

He was a three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, garnering nods for Gay Debut Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1991 for Horse and Other Stories, [6] for Gay Fiction at the 5th Lambda Literary Awards in 1993 for Dream Life, [7] and for Gay Fiction at the 6th Lambda Literary Awards in 1994 for The Listener. [8] The Listener also won the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Literature. [9]

After Huston's death, Carmell and lesbian writer Dorothy Allison coparented a child together. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ John C. Hawley, LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. ISBN   9780313339905. pp. 580-581.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. ISBN   9780313280191. pp. 205-211.
  3. ↑ "Forecasts: Paperbacks". Publishers Weekly , April 12, 1991.
  4. ↑ "Forecasts: Fiction". Publishers Weekly , September 14, 1992.
  5. ↑ "Forecasts: Fiction". Publishers Weekly , September 27, 1993.
  6. ↑ 3rd Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, July 13, 1991.
  7. ↑ 5th Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, July 13, 1993.
  8. ↑ 6th Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, July 13, 1994.
  9. ↑ Richard Labonté, "Title bout". The Advocate , June 28, 1994. pp. 60-61.
  10. ↑ "An Open Book". Los Angeles Times , April 24, 1998.
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