Larry Mitchell (author)

{{Short description|American author and publisher}}

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Larry Mitchell (1939 – December{{nbsp}}26, 2012) was an American author and publisher.Brim, Matt. [http://www.glreview.com/article.php?articleid=527 Larry Mitchell - Novelist of the Dispossed] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130216033522/http://www.glreview.com/article.php?articleid=527 |date=2013-02-16 }}. The Gay and Lesbian Review. V16 N4 2009. [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Larry+Mitchell,+novelist+of+the+dispossessed.-a0203192743 Full text].Mitchell, Larry. [https://www.amazon.com/Life-Mole-Five-Other-Stories/dp/093076210X My Life As A Mole and Five Other Stories]. Calamus Books 1988.Mitchell, Larry. [http://www.queermagic.org/files/FaggotsAndFriends.pdf Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224220754/http://www.queermagic.org/files/FaggotsAndFriends.pdf |date=2012-12-24 }}. Calamus Books 1977.Mayer, Bob. [http://www.mkelgbthist.org/organiz/bus_org/ccba/newsltr-ocrs/ccba-specialed-8305-ocriot.pdf Review of the novel, Terminal Bar]. Cream City Special Edition V1 N1 May 1983, Page 12. He was the founder of Calamus Books - an early small press devoted to gay male literature - and the author of fiction dealing with the gay male experience in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.Brass, Perry. [http://www.felicepicano.net/in-the-media/interviews/82-lambda-book-report-2007 An Interview with Felice Picano] Lambda Book Report, 2007.Texier, Catherine. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Texier-t.html Gay Lit's Golden Age]. Sunday Book Review of Felice Picano's Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: Gay Literary Life After Stonewall.

With Terry Helbing and Felice Picano, he cofounded Gay Presses of New York in 1981. His book of short stories My Life As a Mole won the 1989 Small Press Lambda Literary Award.[http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/13/lambda-literary-awards-1989/ The complete list of Lambda Literary Award Winners from 1989]. Mitchell's novel The Terminal Bar, published in 1982, is considered to be the first book of fiction to address HIV/AIDS.{{cite book|last=Smith |first=Raymond A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vuAWLtgnUm0C&q=terminal+bar+larry+mitchell+aids&pg=PA480 |title=Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic. |year=1998 |page=480 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781579580070}}{{cite book|last=Sedberry |first=Jonathan A. |title=Rupture and Repair: Literature, Genre and the AIDS Epidemic |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-I_XyqU6aYC&q=terminal+bar+larry+mitchell+aids&pg=PA6 |isbn=9781109079616}} In addition to his own work, he was friends with and collaborated with many prominent gay artists working in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s including William "Bill" Rice,Levin, Sara G. [http://thevillager.com/villager_144/billrice74.html Obituary for Bill Rice, 74, cult film actor, artist and writer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129035556/http://thevillager.com/villager_144/billrice74.html |date=2017-01-29 }}. The Villager, V75, N37, February 1–7, 2006.{{cite web|author=Cotter, Holland|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/obituaries/29rice.html?_r=0|title=Bill Rice, 74, Downtown Artist, Actor and Impresario, Dies|work=The New York Times|date=January 29, 2006}} David Wojnarowicz,Carr, Cynthia. [http://www.guernicamag.com/features/elegiac-times/ A Fire In My Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz]. 2012. Peter Hujar and Gary Indiana.Indiana, Gary. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/last-seen-entering-biltmore Last Seen Entering The Biltmore. Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975-2010.] The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell's novel of the same name.{{cite video|title=Acid Snow|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAQQPwoYOA|publisher=YouTube|date=June 26, 2007|author=Itman, Joel}}

Mitchell received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.Mitchell, Larry. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36610309 Larry Mitchell - Failure and Success; the American Theater and its playwrights]. 1968. Ph.D. Dissertation - Columbia University{{cite book|editor1-last=Goode |editor1-first=William J. |editor2-last=Furstenberg |editor2-first=Frank F. |editor3-last=Mitchell |editor3-first=Larry R. |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo3644662.html |title=Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1970}} At that time, he co-edited the book "Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War" with William J. Goode and Frank Furstenberg published in 1970. He was born in Muncie, Indiana, in 1939 and died on December 26, 2012, in Ithaca, New York, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.{{cite web|last1=Brim|first1=Matt|title=Larry Mitchell, Novelist of New York Gay Life|url=http://www.glreview.org/article/larry-mitchell-novelist-of-new-york-gay-life/|publisher=The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide|accessdate=30 December 2015|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=1 April 2013}}