Sarah Schulman
| Sarah Schulman | |
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July 28, 1958 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | novelist, historian, playwright |
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Sarah Miriam Schulman (born 1958) is an American novelist, playwright and lesbian rights activist.
Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at College of Staten Island (CSI) and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Schulman was born on July 28, 1958 in New York City. She attended Hunter College High School. Schulman attended the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1978 but did not graduate. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Empire State College.
Her first novel, The Sophie Horowitz Story was published in 1984, followed by Girls, Visions and Everything (1986) and After Delores, which was published by E. P. Dutton in 1988 and received a rave review in the New York Times, was translated into eight languages, and was awarded an American Library Association Stonewall Book Award in 1989. This was followed by People in Trouble, the first novel about AIDS activism (1990).Empathy (1992) is an experimental novel about lesbian existence. Her next novel, Rat Bohemia (1995) received a full page rave review in the New York Times from Edmund White, and was named one of the 100 best LGBT books by the Publishing Triangle.Shimmer (1998) is set in New York City during the McCarthy era and features a black male protagonist and a white lesbian protagonist.My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During The Reagan/Bush Years (Routledge, 1995) is a collection of journalism that begins before Reagan's election in 1980 and provides ongoing coverage of the AIDS crisis.Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998), which won the Stonewall Book Award, argues that significant plot elements of the successful 1996 musical Rent were lifted from People in Trouble. The heterosexual plot of Rent is based on the opera La Bohème, while the gay plot is similar to the plot of Schulman's novel. Schulman never sued, but analyzed in Stagestruck the way the musical depicted AIDS and gay people, in contrast to work made by those communities that same year.The Child, a controversial novel about a sexual relationship between a forty-year-old man and a fifteen-year-old boy, was published by Carroll and Graf and republished by Arsenal Pulp Press. Arsenal also published an anniversary critical edition of Empathy with articles by Kevin Killian and John Weir in 2007, followed by a new edition of Rat Bohemia in spring 2008, with a cover by Nan Goldin, And a 25th anniversary edition of After Delores in 2013.
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