Thorn Kief Hillsbery is an American novelist. He is the author of ''
War Boy'' and ''
What We Do Is Secret'', which was nominated for a
Lambda Literary Award
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. He was born in
Portland, Oregon
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, and attended
Evergreen State College
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. He currently lives in
Manhattan
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, and teaches a creative writing workshop at
Columbia University
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.
He is openly
gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...
.
["The Next Brokeback". '' The Advocate'', May 9, 2006.]
Bibliography
* ''War Boy'', Rob Weisbach Books, 2000.
* ''What We Do Is Secret'',
Villard
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People
* Villard (surname)
Places France
* Villard, Creuse
* Villard, Haute-Savoie
* Villard-Bonnot, in the Isère department
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* Villard-d'Héry, in the Savoie department
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, 2005.
* ''Empire Made'',
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. (in press)
References
External links
the author's website
Writers from Manhattan
Novelists from New York City
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Evergreen State College alumni
Columbia University faculty
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American gay writers
American LGBT novelists
21st-century American male writers
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