b. 1945d. 1995
Paul Monette
A writer of poetry, essays, novels, and memoirs, Paul Monette is well-known for his candid portrayal of gay relationships in his works.
About
A native of Massachusetts, Monette attended Yale University and taught writing and literature in Boston before moving to West Hollywood in 1978 with his partner, lawyer Roger Horwitz. Monette’s most famous work, Borrowed Time, chronicles Horwitz’s struggle and eventual death from AIDS. Monette’s memoir Half a Man won the National Book Award in 1992.
Monette himself died of AIDS-related complications in 1995, and a film, Paul Monette: On the Brink of Summer’s End, chronicles his last years.
–Christie Finn
Related Information
Monette-Horwitz Trust
monettehorwitz.org/index.htmlPoetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-monetteEncyclopedia Britannica
britannica.com/biography/Paul-MonetteSongs
Even Now…1997 · Evidence of Things Not SeenNed RoremPaul MonetteEvidence of Things Not Seen1997Ned RoremW. H. Auden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Stephen Crane, Mark Doty, Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Monette, William Penn, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman, John Woolman, William Butler Yeats
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