John Rechy

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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
  • 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)
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
SURNAME Rechy, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rechy, John Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH El Paso , Texas