Larry Mitchell (author)
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Larry Mitchell (1939 – December 26, 2012) was an American author and publisher. He was the founder of - an early small press devoted to gay male literature - and the author of fiction dealing with the gay male experience in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. Mitchell received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. At that time, he co-edited the book "Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War" with and Frank Furstenberg published in 1970. He was born in Muncie, Indiana in 1939 and died on December 26, 2012 in Ithaca, New York after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Larry Mitchell (author)
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Larry Mitchell (1939 – December 26, 2012) was an American author and publisher. He was the founder of - an early small press devoted to gay male literature - and the author of fiction dealing with the gay male experience in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. With and Felice Picano, he cofounded Gay Presses of New York in 1981. His book of short stories won the 1989 Small Press Lambda Literary Award. Mitchell's novel The Terminal Bar, published in 1982, is considered to be the first book of fiction to address HIV/AIDS. In addition to his own work, he was friends with and collaborated with many prominent gay artists working in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s including William "Bill" Rice, David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar and Gary Indiana. The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell's novel of the same name. Mitchell received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. At that time, he co-edited the book "Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War" with and Frank Furstenberg published in 1970. He was born in Muncie, Indiana in 1939 and died on December 26, 2012 in Ithaca, New York after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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