American author and publisher
Larry Mitchell (1939 – December 26, 2012) was an American author and publisher.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] He was the founder of Calamus Books - 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.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
With Terry Helbing and Felice Picano ,[ 5] [ 6] he cofounded Gay Presses of New York in 1981. His book of short stories My Life As a Mole won the 1989 Small Press Lambda Literary Award .[ 7] Mitchell's novel The Terminal Bar , published in 1982, is considered to be the first book of fiction to address HIV/AIDS .[ 8] [ 9] 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 ,[ 10] [ 11] David Wojnarowicz ,[ 12] Peter Hujar and Gary Indiana .[ 13] The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell's novel of the same name.[ 14]
Mitchell received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.[ 1] [ 15] [ 16] At that time, he co-edited the book "Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War" with William J. Goode and Frank Furstenberg published in 1970.[ 2] [ 16] He was born in Muncie, Indiana , in 1939 and died on December 26, 2012, in Ithaca, New York , after a battle with pancreatic cancer .[ 17]
^ a b c Brim, Matt. Larry Mitchell - Novelist of the Dispossed Archived 2013-02-16 at archive.today . The Gay and Lesbian Review. V16 N4 2009. Full text .
^ a b c Mitchell, Larry. My Life As A Mole and Five Other Stories . Calamus Books 1988.
^ a b Mitchell, Larry. Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions Archived 2012-12-24 at the Wayback Machine . Calamus Books 1977.
^ a b Mayer, Bob. Review of the novel, Terminal Bar . Cream City Special Edition V1 N1 May 1983, Page 12.
^ a b Brass, Perry. An Interview with Felice Picano Lambda Book Report, 2007.
^ a b Texier, Catherine. Gay Lit's Golden Age . Sunday Book Review of Felice Picano's Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: Gay Literary Life After Stonewall.
^ The complete list of Lambda Literary Award Winners from 1989 .
^ Smith, Raymond A. (1998). Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic . Taylor & Francis. p. 480. ISBN 9781579580070 .
^ Sedberry, Jonathan A. (2008). Rupture and Repair: Literature, Genre and the AIDS Epidemic . ISBN 9781109079616 .
^ Levin, Sara G. Obituary for Bill Rice, 74, cult film actor, artist and writer Archived 2017-01-29 at the Wayback Machine . The Villager, V75, N37, February 1–7, 2006.
^ Cotter, Holland (January 29, 2006). "Bill Rice, 74, Downtown Artist, Actor and Impresario, Dies" . The New York Times .
^ Carr, Cynthia. A Fire In My Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz . 2012.
^ Indiana, Gary. Last Seen Entering The Biltmore. Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975-2010.
^ Itman, Joel (June 26, 2007). Acid Snow . YouTube .
^ Mitchell, Larry. Larry Mitchell - Failure and Success; the American Theater and its playwrights . 1968. Ph.D. Dissertation - Columbia University
^ a b Goode, William J.; Furstenberg, Frank F.; Mitchell, Larry R., eds. (1970). Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War . University of Chicago Press.
^ Brim, Matt (1 April 2013). "Larry Mitchell, Novelist of New York Gay Life" . Boston, Massachusetts: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Retrieved 30 December 2015 .