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John Gilgun (October 1, 1935 – April 30, 2021)[1] was an American writer.[2] He is best known for his 1989 novel Music I Never Dreamed Of, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.[3]

John Gilgun
Born(1935-10-01)October 1, 1935
Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedApril 30, 2021(2021-04-30) (aged 85)
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Genrefiction, poetry
Notable worksMusic I Never Dreamed Of

Gilgun's other works included Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun (1981); the poetry collections The Dooley Poems (1991), From the Inside Out (1991), In the Zone: The Moby Dick Poems (2002) and The Dailies (2010); and the short story collection Your Buddy Misses You (1994).[4]

A graduate of Boston University and the University of Iowa, Gilgun was a longtime teacher of English and creative writing at Missouri Western State University[5] until his retirement in 2000.[2]

Giglun died on April 30, 2021, at the age of 85.[6]


References


  1. John Gilgun, "Gay in Malden, Massachusetts" in Small-town Gay: Essays on Family Life Beyond the Big City (Elizabeth Newman and Curt Johnson, eds.) Kerlak Enterprises, 2004. ISBN 9780966074499. pp. 189-198.
  2. Jonathan Alexander, "Telling the Stories of Our Lives: An Interview with John Gilgun". International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Volume 5, Issue 4 (October 2000), pp 341-351. doi:10.1023/A:1010128115151
  3. Jerry Rosco, "John Gilgun (1935- )" in Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993. ISBN 9780313280191. pp. 149-153.
  4. Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: Volume One. Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 9780313330605. pp. 823-824.
  5. "PAPERS OF JOHN F. GILGUN". University of Iowa Libraries.
  6. "John's Work". John Gilgun. Retrieved 6 November 2022.


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