![]() ![]() The Gallery sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention.ĭreadful follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. His first novel, The Gallery(1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. ![]() Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. Burns, a once renowned author whose popularity has been obscured by time, is given a full-throttled re-examination in Margolick’s thoughtful book.Īmerican author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. ![]() New Month! New books! June is here and with it a plethora of new LGBT titles-ranging from high adventure to romance.Īuthor David Margolick resurrects the life of gay cult writer John Horne Burns in the biography, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns. New in June: Steve Berman, Kate Worsley, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, and David Margolick ![]()
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