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About the Author

Jack Fritscher is a
graduate in philosophy
from the Vatican’s pres-
tigious seminary, the
Pontifical College
Josephinum (1953-
1963). He is the author
of seventeen books of
nonfiction and fiction,
including the comic
novels What They Did to the Kid, Some Dance to Remember, and The
Geography of Women as well as his six short-story collections such as
Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories and Stonewall Stories.
He has also written two screenplays and two produced plays, one of
which, a musical comedy, was staged by the Josephinum Glee Club
in 1959. From 1957 to 1963, he was assistant editor for the national
magazine The Josephinum Review, was founding editor of the Josephi-
num college magazine Pulse, and was published frequently in the
Catholic press before moving into GLBT publishing.
With his 1967 dissertation, Love and Death in Tennessee Wil-
liams, he received his doctorate in American literature from Loyola
University of Chicago where he taught. A prolific contributor to
GLBT magazines, he is noted as the founding San Francisco edi-
tor in chief of Drummer magazine (1977); and as its most frequent
contributor for twenty-four years, he has become the keeper of its
institutional memory in his series of history books, Gay San Fran-
cisco: Eyewitness Drummer.
With more than fifty years as a published author, he remains a
working scholar of American popular culture cited particularly for
his books Popular Witchcraft (1971) and his controversial memoir of
art and Catholicism, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera.
(1994).
Having penned What They Did to the Kid in 1965 as a stand-
alone novel, he subsequently continued the story of Ryan O’Hara

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