Patricia Nell Warren

Patricia Nell Warren (born June 15, 1936 in Helena , Montana ; died February 9, 2019 in Sherman Oaks , California ) was an American writer .

Life

Patricia Nell Warren grew up on the Grant Kohrs cattle ranch near Deer Lodge in Montana . She began writing as a teenager in the 1950s and has been publishing since 1959. From 1959 to 1981 she worked for Reader's Digest in New York City . Due to her collaboration on the Spanish Digest edition Selecciones , she stayed in Spain from 1964 to 1972 frequently .

Warren became known in the United States as a writer and also as the founder of Frontrunners , an LGBT sports club. The Frontrunners organization was inspired by Warren's novel The Front Runner . The first Frontrunners Club was founded in San Francisco in 1974 . The organization expanded over the years through the establishment of other sports clubs in major cities in the United States and internationally in other countries.

Warren traveled extensively as an LGBT activist to LGBT human rights group events and was very active on the issue in the United States. In 1998 she received the Editor's Choice award for Billy's Boy at the Lambda Literary Awards .

In December 2006, Warren announced her candidacy for the West Hollywood, CA local council, but failed to win enough votes.

Works (selection)

• The front runner . Wildcat Press, Beverly Hills 1995, ISBN 0-9641099-1-3 (EA New York 1974).
  • German: The long-distance runner . New edition. Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86787-510-3 (EA Munich 1987).
  • Audiobook: The long-distance runner . Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86187-431-8 (spoken by Thomas Wlaschiha . Realization: Roman Marcus).
• The Fancy Dancer . Bantam Books, New York 1977, ISBN 0-9641099-7-2 (EA New York 1976).
• The Beauty Queen . Morrow, New York 1978, ISBN 0-9641099-8-0 .
• One is the sun . Ballantine Books, New York 1991, ISBN 1-889135-02-X .
• Harlan's Race . Wildcat Press, Beverly Hills 1994, ISBN 0-9641099-0-5
  • German: Harlan's final spurt . Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86187-235-8
• Billy's boy . Wildcat Press, Beverly Hills 1997, ISBN 0-9641099-4-8 .
  • German: Mission Himmelstürmer . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-88619-983-9 .
• The Wild Man . Wildcat Press, Beverly Hills 2001, ISBN 1-889135-05-4 .
  • German: Torero . Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-86187-595-0

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bil Browning: Author & all around wonderful woman Patricia Nell Warren finishes her race. LGBTQ Nation, February 10, 2019, accessed February 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Continuation to The front runner .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Translated by Marc Staudacher.
4. ↑ Continuation of Harlan's race .

Web links

• Literature by and about Patricia Nell Warren in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.patricianellwarren.com
• thefrontrunner.com - Website of the film in development
• International Frontrunners - Find a club near you
• Los Angeles front runners