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              Jack Fritscher is the author

             of 12 books including his non-  first nonfiction book, Popular
             fiction memoir of his bicoastal   Witchcraft: Straight from the
             lover, Robert Mapplethorpe, ti  Witch’s Mouth in 1971 preceded
             tled Mapplethorpe: Assault    his first novel, Leather Blues,
             with a Deadly Camera, which   in 1972. In 1994, fifty-five of
             is a companion to
             his best-selling
             1990 novel of the
             70’s, Some Dance to
             Remember. He is the
             magazine   editor
             who, the Bay Area
             Reporter writes,
             “created gay mag-
             azines as we know  Jack Fritscher, San Francisco 1998, by Mark Hemry
             them,   inventing
             the leather prose
             style.” He  virtu-
             ally created Drum-
             mer, the third gay
             magazine  found ed
             after Stonewall.
             In addition to
             hundreds of his photographs,   his photographs, from many
             more than 400 of his stories   magazine covers and photo
             have appeared in 30 magazines:   spreads, were published as Jack
             Honcho, James White Review,   Fritscher’s American Men, Gay
             and The American Journal of   Men’s Press (GMP), London.
             Popular Culture.                 His fourth collection of
                 In 1998, his third col-   fiction, Titanic: Forbidden
             lection of fiction, Rainbow   Stories Hollywood Forgot was
             County and Other Stories won   published in 1999. His stories
             the U. S. National Small Press   have appeared in Best Gay
             Award for Best Erotica from a   Erotica 1997 and Best Gay Erot-
             field of straight, lesbian, and   ica 1998. Two of his stories are
             gay fiction and nonfiction. In   included in two Alyson Press
             1999, his novel, The Geography   anthologies for 2000 entitled,
             of Women: A Romantic Comedy,   Bar Stories and Rough Stuff.
             was chosen as Finalist for the   His new novel is What They Did
             Independent Publisher Award   to the Kid (2000).
             for Best Fiction in the U.S. His
                    Visit www.JackFritscher.com


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