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New York University, New York, NY 10003
Christopher Bram (born February 22, 1952) is an American author.
Bram grew up in
Virginia Beach, Virginia (outside Norfolk), where he was a paperboy and an Eagle
Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in
English). He moved to New York City in 1978.[1]
His nine
novels range in subject matter from gay life in the 1970s to the career of a
Victorian musical clairvoyant to the frantic world of theater people in
contemporary New York. Fellow novelist Philip Gambone wrote of his work,
"What is most impressive in Bram's fiction is the psychological and emotional
accuracy with which he portrays his characters ... His novels are about ordinary
gay people trying to be decent and good in a morally compromised world. He
focuses on the often conflicting claims of friendship, family, love and desire;
the ways good intentions can become confused and thwarted; and the ways we learn
to be vulnerable and human."[2] Bram has written numerous articles and essays (a selection is
included in ''Mapping the Territory''). He has also written or co-written
several screenplays, including feature documentary and short narrative films
directed by his partner, Draper Shreeve.[3] Bram and Shreeve
met in October 1979 at Julius.
His 1995 novel
''Father of Frankenstein'', about film director James Whale, was made
into the 1998 movie ''Gods and Monsters'' starring Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. The film was
written and directed by Bill Condon who won an Academy Award for the adapted
screenplay.[4]
Bram was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and
is a multiple nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, winning
for ''Lives of the Circus Animals''. In May 2003, he received the Bill
Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing
Triangle,[5] and in 2013 his book ''Eminent Outlaws: The Gay
Writers Who Changed America'' won the organization's Randy Shilts Award. He
lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University.
Featured in
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay
and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard [Rights Notice: Copyright Jonathan G. Silin (jsilin@optonline.net)]
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- ^{{cite news|title=Author Won't Be There For Film's Big Moment; His Novel Was Made Into ''Gods And Monsters''|last= Reif|first=Erika|date=March 20, 1999|publisher=The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)|accessdate=April 1, 2010}}
- ^{{cite book|last1=Gambone|first1=Philip|title=Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers|date=May 1999|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|location=Madison|isbn=978-0-299-16134-7|pages=91–106|url=http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0818.htm|accessdate=5 April 2016}}
- ^{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104161/ |title=Christopher Bram - IMDb |publisher=[[IMDb]]|date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}
- ^{{cite news |title=Film: Love and death in LA |last=Quinn |first=Anthony |date=March 25, 1999 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-love-and-death-in-la-1082864.html | location=London}}
- ^{{cite web|url=http://www.publishingtriangle.org/awards.asp |title=Publishing Triangle Awards |publisher=[[Publishing Triangle]]|date= |accessdate=2010-04-15}}