Michael Golding is an American novelist. He is most noted for his 2015 novel ''A Poet of the Invisible World'', which won the Ferro-Grumley Award and was a shortlisted finalist for the

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a work of fiction on gay male themes. As the award is presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the ...

in 2016."Who Are the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists?"
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Out Out may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Out'' (1957 film), a documentary short about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 * ''Out'' (1982 film), an American film directed by Eli Hollander * ''Out'' (2002 film), a Japanese film ba ...

'', March 8, 2016. An alumnus of

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, Golding previously published the novels ''Simple Prayers'' (1994) and ''Benjamin's Gift'' (1999), and cowrote the screenplay for the 2007 film ''

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''."While writing his novel, an alumnus shatters his old self"
''Duke Magazine'', April 15, 2016. He came out as gay during the process of writing ''A Poet of the Invisible World''.

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