John Gilgun

John Gilgun
Born October 1, 1935
Malden, Massachusetts
Occupation writer
Nationality American
Genre fiction, poetry
Notable works Music I Never Dreamed Of

John Gilgun (born October 1, 1935 in Malden, Massachusetts)[1] is an American writer.[2] He is best known for his 1989 novel Music I Never Dreamed Of, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.[3]

His other works have included Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun (1981); the poetry collections The Dooley Poems (1991), From the Inside Out (1991), In the Zone: The Moby Dick Poems (2002) and The Dailies (2010); and the short story collection Your Buddy Misses You (1994).[4]

A graduate of Boston University and the University of Iowa, Gilgun was a longtime teacher of English and creative writing at Missouri Western State University[5] until his retirement in 2000.[2]

After retiring from a career teaching literature and creative writing, John Gilgun built upon sculpture, painting and multimedia arts training to begin exploring daily exercises in transforming physical creation and found objects through the lens of digital tools to produce collage gone crazy. In the tradition of Cy Twombly and Frank Stella, John pursues the art of the child, the insane, the shaman. Like Art Brut, John creates a gutteral response to joy in digital. Unlike Art Brut, while John is in some ways an outsider, there are decades of informed study and the history of art crafted carefully in what appears to be (and is) organic.

References

  1. ↑ John Gilgun, "Gay in Malden, Massachusetts" in Small-town Gay: Essays on Family Life Beyond the Big City (Elizabeth Newman and Curt Johnson, eds.) Kerlak Enterprises, 2004. ISBN 9780966074499. pp. 189-198.
  2. 1 2 Jonathan Alexander, "Telling the Stories of Our Lives: An Interview with John Gilgun". International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Volume 5, Issue 4 (October 2000), pp 341-351. doi:10.1023/A:1010128115151
  3. ↑ Jerry Rosco, "John Gilgun (1935- )" in Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993. ISBN 9780313280191. pp. 149-153.
  4. ↑ Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: Volume One. Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 9780313330605. pp. 823-824.
  5. ↑ "PAPERS OF JOHN F. GILGUN". University of Iowa Libraries.


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