Jim Grimsley

Jim Grimsley (born 1955 in Pollocksville , Jones County (North Carolina) ) is an American writer. He lives in Atlanta , Georgia .

Grimsleys first novel Winter Birds (dt .: winter birds ) appeared in 1992, first in a Swiss publishing in German before he was released in the US in 1994, where later the year- Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction won. His second novel, Comfort and Joy (dt .: The life between the stars ) was released in 1993 first in German before he was six years later released in the US. His third novel Dream Boy , published in 1995, received the Stonewall Book Award . In 1997 Grimsley was named Georgia's Author of the Year. In recent years he has increasingly turned to writing science fiction stories. He received the Lambda Literary Award for the first two volumes of an SF trilogy Kirith Kirin (2000), The Ordinary (2004) and The Last Green Tree (2006) .

Dream Boy was made into a film by James Bolton in 2008 .

Novels

• 1994 Winter Birds , German: Wintervögel , ad amerik. English v. Thomas Brovot et al. Frank Heibert . Berlin, Edition diá 1992; Frankfurt a. M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1999; E-Book: Edition diá 2012, ISBN 978-3-86034-511-5 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-611-2 (Mobi)
• 1995 Dream Boy , German: Dreamboy , ad amerik. English v. Frank Heibert . Frankfurt a. M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1997; Berlin, Bruno Gmünder Verlag 2002; E-Book: Berlin, Edition diá 2012, ISBN 978-3-86034-513-9 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-613-6 (Mobi)
• 1997 My Drowning , German: Ellen's story , ad amerik. English v. Frank Heibert . Frankfurt a. M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 2000; E-Book: Berlin, Edition diá 2013, ISBN 978-3-86034-532-0 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-632-7 (Mobi)
• 1999 Comfort and Joy , German: Life between the stars , ad amerik. English v. Frank Heibert . Berlin, Edition diá 1993; Frankfurt a. M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1996; Berlin, Bruno Gmünder Verlag 2003; E-Book: Edition diá 2012, ISBN 978-3-86034-512-2 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-612-9 (Mobi)
• 2000 Kirith Kirin
• 2004 The Ordinary
• 2006 The Last Green Tree

Web links

• Literature by and about Jim Grimsley in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jim Grimsley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jim Grimsley in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Jim Grimsley at Open Library
• Jim Grimsley (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture: “Grimsley, Jim (b. 1955)” ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Queer.de: "Traumjungs im Kino" , December 11, 2008