Brent Hartinger
| Brent Hartinger | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) Washington |
| Occupation | Author, playwright, screenwriter |
| Nationality | American |
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| Notable works | Geography Club |
| Partner | Michael Jensen |
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Brent Hartinger (born 1971) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his .
Hartinger was born in 1971 in Washington State and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and studied for a masters in psychology at Western Washington University.
Hartinger has published thirteen novels.
His first novel was Geography Club, about a gay teenager named Russel Middlebrook. It has been challenged in some American schools, including a school in Hartinger's home town of Tacoma.
Hartinger subsequently wrote three young adult sequels to Geography Club, which made up The Russel Middlebrook Series. A second series of books, Russel Middlebrook: the Futon Years, features Russel Middlebrook in his mid-twenties. A third, related series, The Otto Digmore Series, highlights a character from the earlier books.
A feature film version of Geography Club, starring Scott Bakula, Nikki Blonski, Ana Gasteyer, Cameron Deane Stewart, and Justin Deeley, was released in 2013.
Also a screenwriter and playwright, eight of Hartinger’s screenplays have been optioned for film, and four are currently in development. A stage adaptation of Geography Club has received regional productions in Tacoma, Salt Lake City, Edmonton, and elsewhere. A feature film version of his play The Starfish Scream, which has also received many regional productions (and was twice produced in New York), is in development.
Hartinger is a sometime-member of the faculty of Vermont College's MFA program. He also once taught creative writing at Tacoma School of the Arts.
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