John Gilgun (October 1, 1935 – April 30, 2021) was an American writer.Jonathan Alexander, "Telling the Stories of Our Lives: An Interview with John Gilgun". ''International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies'', Volume 5, Issue 4 (October 2000), pp 341-351. He is best known for his 1989 novel ''Music I Never Dreamed Of'', which was a shortlisted nominee for the

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in 1990. Gilgun's other works included ''Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun'' (1981); the poetry collections ''The Dooley Poems'' (1991), ''From the Inside Out'' (1991), ''In the Zone: The Moby Dick Poems'' (2002) and ''The Dailies'' (2010); and the short story collection ''Your Buddy Misses You'' (1994). A graduate of Boston University and the University of Iowa, Gilgun was a longtime teacher of English and creative writing at Missouri Western State University until his retirement in 2000. Giglun died on April 30, 2021, at the age of 85.

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