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Larry Mitchell (author)
American author and publisher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Larry Mitchell (1939 – December 26, 2012) was an American author and publisher.[1][2][3][4] He was the founder of Calamus Books - an early small press devoted to gay male literature - and the author of fiction dealing with the gay male experience in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
With Terry Helbing and Felice Picano,[5][6] he cofounded Gay Presses of New York in 1981. His book of short stories My Life As a Mole won the 1989 Small Press Lambda Literary Award.[7] Mitchell's novel The Terminal Bar, published in 1982, is considered to be the first book of fiction to address HIV/AIDS.[8][9] In addition to his own work, he was friends with and collaborated with many prominent gay artists working in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s including William "Bill" Rice,[10][11] David Wojnarowicz,[12] Peter Hujar and Gary Indiana.[13] The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell's novel of the same name.[14]
Mitchell received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.[1][15][16] At that time, he co-edited the book "Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War" with William J. Goode and Frank Furstenberg published in 1970.[2][16] He was born in Muncie, Indiana, in 1939 and died on December 26, 2012, in Ithaca, New York, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.[17]
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Works
Books
- Acid Snow (Calamus Books, 1992)
- My Life As A Mole and Five Other Stories (Calamus Books, 1988)
- In Heat: A Romance (Gay Presses of New York, 1986)
- The Terminal Bar (Calamus Books, 1982)
- The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (Calamus Books, 1977)
- Great Gay in the Morning (with The Lavender Hill Group, Times Change Press, 1972)
- Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War (with William J. Goode and Frank F. Furstenberg, University of Chicago Press, 1970)
Plays
- Get It While You Can (Presented November 1986 at Theater for the New City, New York City)
- An Evening of Faggot Theater (with The Pink Satin Bomber Collective. Presented March–May 1978 at the Performing Garage, New York City) [18]
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