Bennett Madison
{{Short description|American writer (born 1981)}}
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Bennett Madison (born March 28, 1981) is an American author.
Early life
Bennett Madison was born in 1981 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was educated at Montgomery Blair High School and attended Sarah Lawrence College. He was a childhood friend of John Walker Lindh.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224836/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003414-3,00.html The Making of John Walker Lindh]
Career
Madison's first book, I Hate Valentine’s Day, a light polemic against Valentine’s Day, was published in 2004. He moved to Brooklyn, New York shortly thereafter and began work on several novels. He has published two additional books—Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls (2005) and Lulu Dark & the Summer of the Fox (2006)—about a teenage girl detective, Lulu Dark. In 2009 HarperTeen published his third novel, The Blonde of the Joke.[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Blonde-of-the-Joke/Bennett-Madison/e/9780061948138 The Blonde of the Joke] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129031854/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Blonde-of-the-Joke/Bennett-Madison/e/9780061948138 |date=2010-01-29 }}.
HarperTeen published September Girls in 2013.{{cite news
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Madison has described himself as being "an open and enthusiastic gay."[http://www.queerty.com/does-an-anti-gay-character-make-gay-author-bennett-madisons-teen-book-homophobic-20091123/ Does an Anti-Gay Character Make (Gay Author) Bennett Madison's Teen Book Homophobic?]
Bibliography
- I Hate Valentine's Day (2004)
- Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls (2005)
- Lulu Dark & the Summer of the Fox (2006)
- The Blonde of the Joke (2009)
- September Girls (2013)
References
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:People from Silver Spring, Maryland
Category:American LGBTQ novelists
Category:American children's writers
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Novelists from New York (state)
Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people
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