Scott Heim
| Scott Heim | |
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| Born |
September 26, 1966 Hutchinson, Kansas |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, editor |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1995–present |
| Genre | Literary Fiction |
| Subject | memory, sex, childhood trauma |
| Notable works |
Mysterious Skin (1995) We Disappear (2008) |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award for Fiction, 2009 |
| Partner | Michael Lowenthal |
| Website | |
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Scott Heim (born 1966) is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, Mysterious Skin, was published in 1995.
Scott Heim was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1966. He grew up in a small farming community there, and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote his first novel, Mysterious Skin. HarperCollins published that book in 1996, and Scott followed it with another novel, In Awe, in 1997. In 2008, his third novel, We Disappear, was published, this time as a paperback original with HarperPerennial. This novel won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction.
In 2012, Heim began publishing a series of music-related nonfiction collections called "The First Time I Heard" series, for which he serves as editor. In these books, musicians and writers tell their stories of when they first heard a specific iconic band or artist. The first six installments of the "First Time" series have focused on Joy Division / New Order, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie, The Smiths, Kate Bush, and My Bloody Valentine. (Thus far, contributors to these books have included notable musicians such as David Gedge of The Wedding Present, David Narcizo of Throwing Muses, Bob Mould, Grasshopper of Mercury Rev, Lou Rhodes of Lamb, Simon Scott and Christian Savill of Slowdive, Joan Wasser, David Balfe of The Teardrop Explodes, Craig Wedren and Nathan Larson of Shudder To Think, John Grant, Peter Silberman of The Antlers, Anomie Belle, Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven, Annette Peacock, Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi of Lush, Ian Masters of Pale Saints, Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Mark Van Hoen, Pieter Nooten, Mia Clarke of Electrelane, Vanessa Briscoe Hay of Pylon, and avant-garde pianist Harold Budd.) Heim has scheduled future "First Time" books on ABBA, Kraftwerk, R.E.M., Roxy Music, and other artists.
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