John Rechy
John Rechy (born March 10, 1931 in El Paso , Texas ) is an American author. His first novel reflects his biographical background as a homosexual man of Mexican - Scottish descent. His literary work is attributed to the Chicano literature . Rechy is a professor in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California .
Rechy was awarded the PEN-USA-West's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999 . In 2018 he received the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category for After the Blue Hour .
bibliography
- Novels
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City of Night (Grove Press, 1963)
- Night on the town. Droemer Knaur Verlag, 1989, 464 pages.
- Night on the town. Bruno Gmünder Paperback, 2001, 464 pages.
- Numbers (Grove Press, 1967)
- This Day's Death (Grove Press, 1969)
- The Vampires (Grove Press, 1971)
- The Fourth Angel (Viking, 1972)
- The Sexual Outlaw (Grove Press, 1977)
- Rushes (Grove Press, 1979)
- Bodies and Souls (Carroll & Graf, 1983)
- Marilyn's Daughter (Carroll & Graf, 1988)
- The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez (Arcade, 1991)
- Our Lady of Babylon (Arcade, 1996)
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The Coming of the Night (Grove Press, 1999)
- Nightfall. Bruno Gmünder Paperback, 2002, 288 pages.
- The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens (Grove Press, 2003)
- Beneath the Skin (Carroll & Graf, 2004)
- After the Blue Hour (Grove Press, 2017)
Non-fiction
- The Sexual Outlaw (Grove Press, 1977)
- Beneath the Skin (Carroll & Graf, 2004)
- About My Life and the Kept Woman (Grove Press, 2008)
Rechy also wrote several essays anthologized in Beneath the Skin and Tigers Wild , and has written articles for The Nation , The New York Review of Books , Los Angeles Times Book Review , LA Weekly , The Village Voice, and The New York Times Books .
Web links
- John Rechy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Rechy in nndb (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Heide, Markus: Overwriting boundaries: Chicano / a-narrative literature and the staging of cultural contact . Overriding boundaries: Chicano / a-narrative literature and the staging of cultural contact, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8253-1662-4 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rechy, John |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rechy, John Francisco |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | El Paso , Texas |