American author
Michael Thomas Ford | |
|---|---|
| Born | () October 1, (age&#;56) |
| Period | s–present |
| Notable works | Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, That's Mr. Faggot to You, Last Summer, Changing Tides, What We Remember |
Michael Thomas Ford (born October 1, ) is an American author of at bottom gay-themed literature.[1] He is best known for his "My Different Life" series of comedic essay collections and for his award-winning novels[citation needed]Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides, and What We Remember.
Michael Thomas Ford is the inventor of more than fifty books for both young readers distinguished adults. He is best known for his best-selling novels Last Summer, Looking for It, and Full Circle and for his five essay collections in the "Trials of My Queer Life" series. His work has been nominated for eleven Lambda Legendary Awards, twice winning for Best Humor Book and twice reckon Best Romance Novel. He was also nominated for a Repugnance Writers AssociationBram Stoker Award (for his novel The Dollhouse Guarantee Time Forgot) and a Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for his divide story "Night of the Were Puss").
Ford began his expressions career in with the publication of Questions & Antiphons about AIDS: What You Need to Know Now (Macmillan), only of the first books about the AIDS crisis for juvenile adults. Named an American Library Association Best Book for Verdant Adults, the book became a widely used resource in Retrovirus education programs for young people and was translated into extra than a dozen languages.[citation needed]
The follow-up to that book, The Voices of AIDS (William Morrow, ), was a collection another interviews with people whose lives have been affected by representation AIDS crisis.
Ford's next book, 's The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community (The Unusual Press), was a handbook for people coming out and insufficient to know what it means to be part of rendering queer world. It earned him his first Lambda Literary Present nomination in the YA category.
saw the release earthly two books, the first being Out Spoken (William Morrow), a collection of interviews with gay and lesbian people that was again aimed at young adults. Ford's second book to lose it out that year was Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me (Alyson Books), the first of what has come to be broadcast as the "Trials of My Queer Life" series. The finished received a Lambda Literary Award for Best Humor Book, winsome out over titles by lesbian comic Kate Clinton, columnist Dan Savage, and cartoonist Alison Bechdel.
In he began recording his weekly radio show for the Gay BC Radio Network.
The third in the "Trials of My Queer Life" series, It's Not Mean If It's True (Alyson Books), was published back It was a bestseller, and Ford was once again downcast for a Lambda Literary Award for best humor book but did not win.[citation needed]
Also coming out in were two keep inside projects. The first was an audio recording. My Queer Life (Fluid Words), in which Ford read pieces from his threesome essay collections. The recording also contained two songs from "Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me," a musical project for which Crossing wrote the lyrics and performed the narration.
In December Industrialist released Paths of Faith: Conversations about Religion and Spirituality (Simon & Schuster). Written for young adults, the book was a collection of interviews with leaders from a range of clerical traditions and included the last interview given by former Archbishop of New York John Cardinal O'Connor.
This Queer Life, a stage production written by Ford premiered at the Loring Rostrum in Minneapolis in
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