AIDS: The Literary Response [Hardcover]

Emmanuel S. Nelson (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 233 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Pub (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805790292
• ISBN-13: 978-0805790290
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,870,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Les K Wright was awarded a four-year National Merit Scholarship and a New York State Regents Scholarship to attend the State University of New York at Albany, where he majored in Comparative Literature, with concentrations in German and Russian. He attended the Universities of Würzburg (1 year) and Tübingen (4 years), and completed his MA and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. Co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California, and founder of the Bear History Project, Les K. Wright taught Humanities, English, and Film Studies at Mount Ida College, where he received tenure in 1999. He has also taught German and Russian (Hamilton College), and Human Sexuality (Worcester State).

He is the editor and co-author or two books, The Bear Book and The Beak Book II, and has contributed to several other anthologies, including Hometowns: Gay Men Write about Where They Belong and Bears on Bears, among others. He reviews film for CultureVulture.net. At present he lives with his husband in Humboldt County, California. He is featured in Dan Hunt's documentary video Bear Run. Also see: Les K. Wright Papers, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University.