Paul Russell (novelist)
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College Cornell University |
| Notable awards | Ferro-Grumley Award (2000, 2012) |
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Paul Russell is an American novelist, poet and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction, in 2000 for The Coming Storm and in 2012 for The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov,[1] a fictionalized portrayal of Sergey Nabokov, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known.[2]
Russell grew up in Memphis, Tennessee,[2] where his father Jack was a mathematics professor at Southwestern at Memphis.[2] He studied at Oberlin College and Cornell University.[2] He is a professor of English literature at Vassar College.[3]
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The Salt Point (1990)
- Boys of Life (1991)
- Sea of Tranquillity (1994)
- The Coming Storm (1999)
- War Against the Animals (2003)
- The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov (2012)
- Immaculate Blue (2015)
Non-fiction
[edit]- The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present (1995)
References
[edit]- ^ "Cleis Press and Viva Editions Announce the Debut of Audiobooks Produced by Renowned Susie Bright". PRWeb, February 6, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Paul Russell on a forgotten Nabokov ... and the writing life". Memphis Flyer. February 9, 2012.
- ^ "Speak, Imagination" Archived 2013-06-28 at archive.today. Chronogram, December 29, 2011.
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