Sarah Schulman
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| Born: | July 28, 1958 (age 48) New York City, United States |
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| Occupation: | novelist, historian, playwright |
| Nationality: | American |
Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958, in New York City) is an American novelist, historian and playwright.
Her early novels were notable for their breezy style, set in the artistic, bohemian, lesbian sub culture of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Books such as The Sophie Horowitz Story, Girls, Visions and Everything and After Delores, which won the Stonewall Book Award and won her a tiny following, though later novels such as People in Trouble (1990), Empathy, Rat Bohemia and Shimmer examined issues including AIDS in a more serious vein. A student of Jewish American history and documentary film maker, Schulman continues to work on new projects.
In her 1998 book Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, which also won the Stonewall Book Award, Schulman contends that significant plot elements of the successful 1996 musical Rent were lifted from People In Trouble. The heterosexual plot of Rent is based on the opera La Bohème, while the gay plot is similar to the plot of Schulman's novel [1].
She is one of the founders of the Lesbian Avengers.
In 1987, she cofounded MIX NYC, best known for its annual New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, with filmmaker Jim Hubbard. Hubbard and Schulman have also collaborated on the Act Up Oral History Project[2].
She currently teaches English at The College of Staten Island.
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