Bo Huston (1959–1993) was an American writer.Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ''Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. . pp. 205-211. He was briefly a film student at New York University in the early 1980s, but withdrew from the program and worked in typesetting. Moving to San Francisco in 1987, he took a typesetting job with an advertising agency and met his longterm partner Dan Carmell, but left the advertising job in 1988 after being diagnosed HIV-positive and devoted the remainder of his life to writing. He was a regular columnist for the '' San Francisco Bay Times'', was a cofounder of the LGBT literary conference ''Out/Write'', and published his first short story collection ''Horse and Other Stories'' in 1990. He followed up with the novels ''Remember Me'' in 1991 and ''Dream Life'' in 1992. He died of

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in 1993. A collection of short stories, ''The Listener'', was posthumously published in 1993. He was a three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, garnering nods for Gay Debut Fiction at the

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in 1991 for ''Horse and Other Stories'', for

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at the 5th Lambda Literary Awards in 1993 for ''Dream Life'', and for Gay Fiction at the

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in 1994 for ''The Listener''. ''The Listener'' also won the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Literature. After Huston's death, Carmell and lesbian writer

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coparented a child together."An Open Book"
'' Los Angeles Times'', April 24, 1998.

Works

*''Horse and Other Stories'' (1990) *''Remember Me'' (1991) *''Dream Life'' (1992) *''The Listener'' (1993)

References

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