Michael Sledge is an American writer. His 2010
debut novel
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''The More I Owe You'', about the relationship between
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Awar ...
and
Lota de Macedo Soares, won the
Ferro-Grumley Award
The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle and the Ferro-Grumley Foundation to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBT fiction. The award is presented in memory of writers Robert Ferro and Michael Grum ...
in 2011 and was a shortlisted nominee for the
Lambda Literary Award
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in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the
23rd Lambda Literary Awards.
"Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Unveiled"
''Adweek
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'', March 16, 2011.
Originally from Texas, Sledge previously published the memoir ''Mother and Son'', about his relationship with his mother, who did not fully accept that he had come out as gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...
, in 1995.["Mother and Son: A Memoir"]
''Publishers Weekly
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'', September 4, 1995. At the time, he worked primarily as a technical and science editor.[
]
Bibliography
* ''Mother and Son'', New York: Simon & Schuster. 1995.
* ''The More I Owe You'', Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press. 2010.
* ''Al Sur, Cronica del Valle Encantado'', Mexico City: Editorial Turner. TBP 2022.
References
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American memoirists
American LGBT novelists
LGBT memoirists
American gay writers
Writers from Houston
Living people
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Texas
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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