Felice Picano

Felice Picano
Picano c. 2008
Picano c. 2008
Born (1944-02-22) February 22, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • memoirist
  • novelist
  • critic
  • playwright
  • publisher
Alma materQueens College, City University of New York

Felice Picano (born February 22, 1944) is an American writer, publisher, and critic who has encouraged the development of gay literature in the United States. His work is documented in many sources.[1]

  1. ^ The Cambridge History of American Literature: Vol. 7—Prose Writing, 1940-1990 Sacvan Bercovitch, Ed. Cambridge University Press, 1999; A Concise Companion to American Literature & Culture since World World II, Josephine Hendin, ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004; Contemporary Authors: Autobiographies: Felice Picano, Thomson-Gale Press, 2007. Contemporary Gay Male Novelists; A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Emmanuel S. Nelson, Greenwood, 1993; Gay Fiction Speaks: Interviews with 12 Authors, Vol 1, Richard Canning, Columbia University Press, 2002; The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill Club and the Making of Gay Culture, David Bergman, Columbia University Press, 2005; Gay & Lesbian Literature Since World War II: History and Memory. Sonya L. Jones, Routledge, 1998; Gay & Lesbian Literary Heritage, Claude Summers, Routledge, 1995; A Sea Of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay & Lesbian Cultures, Sonya L. Jones, Routledge, New York, 2000; The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay identities A 20th Century History; John Loughery, Holt, 1999; Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture; Ronald R. Butters, John M. McClan, Michael Moor—Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1989