Paul Monette
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Works by Paul Monette
(1945-1999)
| 1988 | Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memory. The first volume of Monette's acclaimed memoirs describes his relationship with a longtime lover who died of AIDS. Monette's account of growing up gay, Becoming a Man, would follow in 1992. |
| 1990 | Afterlife. The novel treats the difficulty that a man diagnosed with AIDS experiences as he enters into another relationship. Monette's final novel before his death, Halfway Home (1991), would depict an AIDS-afflicted artist managing a fulfilling life despite having the disease. |
| 1992 | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. Winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction, this is a blunt, angry account of growing up gay in a working-class, homophobic culture and the struggle to break out of the confining atmosphere of the closet. |
| 1994 | Last Watch of the Night. Monette's book is devoted to the state of the nation during the AIDS crisis as well as his own illness. Monette castigates institutions--such as the Catholic Church--that have failed him and others. |
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Paul Monette
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Television writer and novelist Paul Monette spent the last years of his life offering deeply intimate looks at his struggle with AIDS. A former student at Yale, Monette came to Southern California in 1977 and found work as a screenwriter. As an author, he eked out a living writing novelizations of such films as Nosferatu (1979), Midnight Run (1987) and Havana, but his most recognized works deal with homosexuality and the AIDS disease. His Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir won a Lambada Literary Award, while his autobiographical Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story earned him several awards, notably the American Book Award. In the early '90s, filmmakers Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg approached Monette about being the subject of a documentary biography. The result, Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End, was not released until 1997, two years after Monette's death. That year, it earned the Audience Award for "Best Documentary" at Sundance. Monette's work as a television writer has included penning episodes for thirtysomething. ~ Sandra Brennan, RoviWikipedia on Answers.com:
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Paul Monette
Paul Landry Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.[1]
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Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963 and Yale University in 1967. Conflicted about his sexual identity, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he taught writing and literature at Milton Academy for a number of years before moving to West Hollywood, a neighborhood in Los Angeles which has a large population of gay men, in 1978 with his romantic partner, lawyer Roger Horwitz. Monette's most acclaimed book, Borrowed Time, chronicles Horwitz's fight against and eventual death from AIDS. His 1992 memoir, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, tells of his life in the closet before coming out, culminating with his meeting Horwitz in 1974.[2] Becoming a Man won the 1992 National Book Award for Nonfiction.[3] Monette also wrote the novelizations of the 1988 film Midnight Run, the 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre, the 1987 film Predator and 1983 film Scarface.
Monette's last years, before his own AIDS-related death, are chronicled in the film named after him, Paul Monette: On the Brink of Summer's End by Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg.[4] "By the end of his life, Monette had healed most of his psychic wounds, but his rage persisted."[5] Monette died in Los Angeles, California, where he lived with his partner of five years, Winston Wilde.[6] Monette was survived by his lover, Winston Wilde; his father, Paul Monette Sr., and his brother, Robert Monette who remains the appointed Trustee of the Monette Horwitz Trust.[7][8]
Bibliography
- Monette, Paul (1975). The Carpenter at the Asylum (Poetry). Boston: Little, Brown. ASIN B000WFI36Q.
- Monette, Paul (1978). Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-57821-5.
- Monette, Paul, The Gold Diggers, Los Angeles, New York, Alyson Classics Library, 1979, ISBN 1-55583-458-2
- Monette, Paul (1981). The Long Shot. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-76828-3.
- Lightfall, Avon Books, 1982, ISBN 0-380-81075-1 (horror novel) (cover by Wayne Barlowe)
- Monette, Paul (1988). Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-113598-3.
- Monette, Paul (1989). Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog (Poetry). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-01472-4.
- Monette, Paul (1990). Afterlife. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-57339-3.
- Monette, Paul (1991). Halfway Home. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-58329-1.
- Monette, Paul (1992). Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-111519-2.
- Monette, Paul (1994). Last Watch of the Night (a collection of essays). San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-600202-7.
- Monette, Paul (1995). West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New and Selected Poems, 1973-93. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-13616-1.
- Monette, Paul (1997). Sanctuary, A Tale of Life in the Woods. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-83286-0.
References
- ^ Wilde, Winston Legacies of Love, The Haworth Press, ISBN 978-1-56023-664-1, p174
- ^ Martinez, Gerard (2005-10-11). "Becoming a Man looks at difficulties of gay lifestyle". The Daily Texan. http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2005/10/11/Entertainment/Becoming.A.Man.Looks.At.Difficulties.Of.Gay.Lifestyle-1015896.shtml. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1992". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
(With acceptance speech by Monette.) - ^ Monte Bramer; Lesli Klainberg (1996). "Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117310/. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (1998-02-06). "Paul Monette: More Active and Angry on the Way to the End". The New York Times. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/020698paul-film-review.html. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ "One Person’s Truth: The Life and Work of Paul Monette". UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library. 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-01-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20080120143844/http://www.library.ucla.edu/special/monette/pmmemory.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
- ^ Esther B. Fein (February 12, 1995). "Paul Monette, 49, Who Wrote of AIDS, Dies". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4DE1E3DF931A25751C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ^ "About the Monette-Horwitz Trust". The Paul Monette - Roger Horwitz Trust. 2007. http://www.monettehorwitz.org/about.html. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
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