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Literary Award Finalists
This year's roster of authors reads like a who's who of the publishing industry. Many of the writers who established glbt literature are represented, including science fiction master Samuel Delany, historian Karla Jay, Eleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook, and novelist Andrew Holleran. The continuing vitality of the field is demonstrated by the number of authors enjoying their first book publication, such as novelists Elizabeth Stark and Henry Flesh, and poets Mark Wunderlich and Marvin K. White. The popularity of many of this year's finalists has placed them on the 1999 best seller lists, including Michael Thomas Ford's humorous That's Mr. Faggot to You, Brad Gooch's self-help The Boyfriend Within, and Sleeping Bones, Katherine V. Forrest's most recent Kate Delafield mystery. Will this year's Lammy winners ratify national sales figures, or will the seventy authors and publishing industry professionals serving as judges choose differently? Will R.D. Zimmerman win a Lammy for a second year in a row, this time for the mystery Innuendo? David Leddick for The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev? Joan Nestle for the Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction?
Seventy judges representing a broad cross-section of our literary community then select a single book to win the Lammy in each of twenty categories. Past winners include Edmund White, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, and Jeanette Winterson, to name a few. "We saw a gay publishing boom in the '90s with the National Book Awards recognizing writers such as Dorothy Allison and Paul Monette, and Michael Cunningham's winning of a Pulitzer prize. If the Gay '90s have been any indication, the next millennium will see ever greater recognition of our achievements," said publisher Jim Marks. This year's awards presentation will be preceded by Lammy finalists events in readings in San Francisco (April 13, at the San Francisco Main Public Library), Los Angeles (April 19), and Chicago (April 28, at the Gerber-Hart Library). The winners will be announced at a gala event to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL, on June 1, 2000. Tickets are $100 each ($75 if purchased before March 1). Additional Lammy readings will be held in Washington, D.C. (June 7), New York (June 15), and Philadelphia (June 17).
For further information about the awards program or banquet tickets, contact the Lambda Literary Foundation, P.O. Box 73910, Washington, D.C. 20056-13910; phone the LAMMYS LINE at (202) 462-7924; or e-mail us at LBREditor@aol.com The 12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards are sponsored by: American Airlines · The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation · The Playboy Foundation The Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, One in Ten, Outlines and Blacklines Newspapers 12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists: Lesbian Fiction Bruised Fruit, Anna Livia, Firebrand Faults, Terri de la Peña, Alyson Salt Water and Other Stories, Barbara Wilson, Alyson Shy Girl, Elizabeth Stark, FSG Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters, Riverhead Gay Men's Fiction Allan Stein, Matthew Stadler, Grove Comfort and Joy, Jim Grimsley, Algonquin In September the Light Changes, Andrew Holleran, Hyperion The Book of Lies, Felice Picano, Alyson The Coming Storm, Paul Russell, St. Martin's Lesbian & Gay Anthologies—Fiction Besame Mucho. Jaime Manrique & Jesse Dorris, Painted Leaf Hers 3, Robert Drake & Terry Wolverton, Faber & Faber His 3, Robert Drake & Terry Wolverton, Faber & Faber Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories, Emma Donoghue, Carroll & Graf Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle & Nancy Holden, Vintage Lesbian & Gay Anthologies—Non-Fiction A Woman Like That, Joan Larkin, Bard Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics, Larry Gross & James D. Woods, Columbia UP Completely Queer, Steve Hogan & Lee Hudson, Henry Holt Fighting Words, Charles Michael Smith, Avon This is What Lesbian Looks Like, Kris Kleindienst, Firebrand Lesbian & Gay Humor Ethan Exposed, Eric Orner, St. Martin's Subgurlz, Jennifer Camper, Cleis That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford, Alyson Way to Go Smith!, Bob Smith, Weisbach-Morrow Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies, Scott Brassart & Julie Trevelyan, Alyson Children/Young Adult Dare Truth or Promise, Paula Boock, Houghton Mifflin Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger, Simon & Schuster Name Me Nobody, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Hyperion The Blue Lawn, William Taylor, Alyson The Year They Burned the Books, Nancy Garden, FSG Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography An Underground Life, Gad Beck, U of Wisconsin Firebird, Mark Doty, HarperCollins Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan, Doubleday Left Out, Martin Duberman, HarperCollins The Velveteen Father, Jesse Green, Villard Lesbian Biography/Autobiography Baby Precious Always Shines, Kay Turner, St. Martin's Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 2: 1933-1938, Blanche Weisen Cook, Viking My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich, Graywolf Tales of the Lavender Menace, Karla Jay, Basic Books The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, Diana Souhami, Doubleday Gay Men's Mystery Drop Dead, Mark Zubro, St. Martin's Justice at Risk, John Morgan Wilson, Doubleday The Death of a Constant Lover, Lev Raphael, Walker & Co. The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse Keith Hartman, Meisha Merlin Lesbian Mystery Hunting The Witch, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Lost Daughters, J.M. Redmann, W.W. Norton Murder Undercover, Claire McNab, Naiad She Came in Drag, Mary Wings, Berkley Prime Crime Sleeping Bones, Katherine Forrest, Berkley Prime Crime Lesbian & Gay Drama Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally, Grove/ Atlantic Press Lovesick, Lawrence Senelick, Routledge Of All the Nerve, Deb Margolin, Cassell Academic Prepare For Saints, Steven Watson, Random House What I Meant Was, Craig Lucas, TCG Gay Men's Poetry Diva, Rafael Campo, Duke UP Last Rights, Marvin K. White, Alyson Lyric, G. Winston James, Grapevine The Anchorage, Mark Wunderlich, U Massachusetts Trappings, Richard Howard, Turtle Point Lesbian Poetry Interior With Sudden Joy, Brenda Shaughnessy, FSG Midnight Salvage, Adrienne Rich, W.W. Norton Monkeypuzzle, Rita Wong, Press Gang Rave, Olga Broumas, Copper Canyon Press Walking Back Up Depot Street, Minnie Bruce Pratt, U of Pittsburgh Gay Men's Studies Men Like That, John Howard, U of Chicago Pictures & Passions, James Saslow, Viking The Crisis of Desire, Robin Hardy with David Groff, Houghton Mifflin The Mismeasure of Desire, Edward Stein, Oxford UP Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel Delany, NYU Press Lesbian Studies A Desired Past, Leila J. Rupp, U of Chicago Eden Built By, Eves Bonnie Morris, Alyson Strange Sisters, Jaye Zimet, Viking To Believe in Women, Lillian Faderman, Houghton Mifflin Whole Lesbian Sex Book, Felice Newman, Cleis Lesbian & Gay Photography/Visual Arts Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev, intro. by David Leddick, Elysium John Singer Sargent, John Esten & Donna Hassler, Universe Pictures & Passions, James Saslow, Viking Strange Sisters, Jaye Zimet, Viking The Drag King Book, Del LaGrace Volcano & Judith Halberstam, Serpent's Tail Lesbian & Gay Science Fiction/Fantasy Minions of the Moon, Richard Bowes, Tor Books Night Shade, Victoria Brownworth & Judith Redding, Seal Press The Annunciate, Severna Park, Avon-Eos The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse, Keith Hartman, Meisha Merlin Through a Brazen Mirror, Delia Sherman, Cortney Skinner & Ellen Kushner, Circlet Lesbian & Gay Spirituality/Religion Coming Out Spiritually, Christian de la Huerta, Tarcher-Putnam Gay Spirit Warrior, John Stowe, Findhorn Prayer Warriors, Stuart Howell Miller, Alyson Queer Dharma 2, Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine Press Respecting the Soul, Keith Boykin, Avon Transgender Crossing, Deidre McCloskey, U of Chicago From Toads to Queens, Jacobo Schifter, Harrington Park Press The Drag King Book, Del LaGrace Volcano & Judith Halberstam, Serpent's Tail Transmen and FTM's Jason Cromwell, U of Illinois Trumpet, Jackie Kay, Pantheon Lesbian & Gay Small Press Christ-Like, Emanuel Xavier, Painted Leaf Hey Paesan!, Capone, Leto & Mecca, Three Guineas Massage, Henry Flesh, Akashic Mr. Dalloway, Robin Lippincott, Sarabande The Queer Press Guide, Paul Harris, Painted Leaf |
Science Fiction author Samuel Delany is up for a Lambda Literary Award for his study Times Square Red 
Cover of The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev
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