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.
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.
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.
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.
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, All Movie Guide
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.[3] "By the end of his life, Monette had healed most of his psychic wounds, but his rage persisted."[4] Monette died in Los Angeles, California, where he lived with his partner of five years, Winston Wilde.[5] 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.[6][7]
Bibliography
Monette, Paul (1975). The Carpenter at the Asylum (Poetry). Boston: Little, Brown.
Monette, Paul (1978). Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN0316578215.
Monette, Paul, The Gold Diggers, Los Angeles, New York, Alyson Classics Library, 1979, isbn 1555834582
Monette, Paul (1981). The Long Shot. New York: Avon Books. ISBN0380768283.
Monette, Paul (1988). Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN0151135983.
Monette, Paul (1989). Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog (Poetry). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN0312014724.
Monette, Paul (1990). Afterlife. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN0517573393.
Monette, Paul (1991). Halfway Home. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN0517583291.
Monette, Paul (1992). Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN0151115192.
Monette, Paul (1994). Last Watch of the Night (a collection of essays). San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN0156002027.
Monette, Paul (1995). West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New and Selected Poems, 1973-93. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN0312136161.
Monette, Paul (1997). Sanctuary, A Tale of Life in the Woods. New York: Scribner. ISBN0684832860.
