Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter
american gay writers
Richard Rodriguez
American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.
Reynolds Price
American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University
Thomas Mallon
American novelist, essayist, and critic
Armistead Maupin
American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
Maurice Sendak
American illustrator and writer of children’s books
Tony Kushner
American author, playwright, and screenwriter
Christopher Isherwood
Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer
Lars Eighner
Author of Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s; the included essay “On Dumpster Diving,” which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster”; Pawn to Queen Four, a novel; Lavender Blue: How to Write and Sell Gay Men’s Erotica, also published as Elements of Arousal ; Gay Cosmos, a work of gay theory; and numerous short works of gay men’s erotica, collected under various titles