Martin_Wilson_(writer)

Martin Wilson (writer)

Martin Wilson (writer)

American writer

Martin Wilson (born 1973 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American writer. He is best known for his award-winning debut novel What They Always Tell Us, published in 2008.[1]

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A graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida,[2] he is currently based in New York City, where he works in marketing and publicity for HarperCollins.[2]

What They Always Tell Us won an Alabama Author Award for best young adult book, and was a nominee for children's/young adult literature category at the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards.[2] The novel was also an Indie Next Selection, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection, and a CCBC Choices Book.[2] His second novel, We Now Return to Regular Life, was published in 2017.[3]

Wilson has also published short stories.[2] In 2010, he contributed an essay about John Donovan's influential LGBT teen novel I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip to the 2010 book The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Martin Wilson's debut novel What They Always Tell Us brings gay coming-of-age tales out of the YA closet" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Nashville Scene, April 1, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "The Banal and the Profane: Martin Wilson". Lambda Literary Foundation, April 30, 2013.
  3. [3]
    "We Now Return to Regular Life" | www.martinwilsonwrites.com | https://www.martinwilsonwrites.com/we-now-return-to-regular-life | accessed October 2, 2019.
  4. [4]
    "The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Edited by Tom Cardamone". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, May 4, 2013.
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