Felice Picano

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Felice Picano is an American writer, considered a Post-Modernist and a Founding Father of Modern Gay Literature.

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[edit] Biography

Born in New York City in 1944, he attended [[Queens College] and graduated cum laude in 1964 with English department honors]. He founded SeaHorse Press in 1977, and later The Gay Presses of New York with Terry Helbing and Larry Mitchell in 1981 and was Editor-in-Chief there. He was an editor and constant writer for The Advocate, Blueboy, Mandate, GaysWeek, Christopher Street, and Books Editor of The New York Native as well as a culture reviewer for The Los Angeles Examiner, San Francisco Examiner, New York Native, Harvard Lesbian & Gay Review and the Lamdba Book Report. He has also written for OUT and OUT Traveller. With Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, and George Whitmore, he founded The Violet Quill considered to be the pathbreaking gay male literary nucleus of the 20th Century.

In his memoir Men Who Loved Me, he describes his close friendship with the poet W. H. Auden. In his later memoir/history, Art & Sex in Greenwich Village, he writes about contacts with Gore Vidal, James Purdy, Charles Henri-Ford, Edward Gorey, Robert Mapplethorpe and many contemporary and younger authors.

Among those who Picano introduced to the public via his publishing companies were Dennis Cooper, Harvey Fierstein, Jane Chambers, Brad Gooch, Robert Glueck, Doric Wilson, and Gavin Dillard. Several of his novels have been national and international best-sellers, and they have been translated into fifteen languages, including Greek, Hebrew, Japanese and Slovenian.

A long time resident of Manhattan and Fire Island Pines, Picano has resided for periods of time in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, England, and Berlin, Germany. He now lives in West Hollywood, CA..

[edit] Literary prizes

He won the [[Ferro-Grumley Award] and Gay Times of England Award ] for best gay novel and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award for short-story. He was a finalist for the PEN Ernest Hemingway Award and was nominated for four Lambda Literary Awards.

[edit] Bibliography

  • [[Smart as the Devil]novel]
  • Eyes
  • [[The Mesmerist] novel]

The Deformity Lover and Other Poems

  • The Lure
  • An Asian Minor
  • Late in the Season
  • A True Likeness:Lesbian and Gay Writing Today (editor)

House of Cards --novel

  • Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love (later reprinted with An Asian Minor as The New York Years)

Immortal: A Play) based on An Asian Minor--Meridian Gay Theatre One O'Clock Jump--One Act Play --The Glines

  • Ambidextrous

To the Seventh Power --novel

  • Men Who Loved Me; Memoir. Vol.2
  • [[A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay] Memoir. Vol. 3]

Window Elegies --Poetry Chapbook, Univ. of Alambama

Dryland's End-- novel

  • Like People in History: A Gay American Epic

The Book of Lies --novel

  • [[Looking Glass Lives] novella]
  • Onyxnovel
  • [[The New Joy of Gay Sex]--Third Edition] (with Dr. Charles Silverstein)

The Bombay Trunk--A Play --New Conservatory Theatre Fred in Love --Memoir (Univ. of Wisconsn Press)

  • Tales: From a Distant Planet (French Connection Press, 2006)

Art & Sex in Greenwich Vilage: Literary Life Before Stonewall--Memoir/History Carroll & Graf Books


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