Brad Gooch (born 1952) is an American writer.


His book, Finding the Boyfriend Within, calls for gay men to cultivate self-respect by cultivating an imaginary lover.

This
is the seventy-third post in a series highlighting the best gay and
lesbian authors from the 20th century (with a few before and after that
period) who have recorded in fiction, and nonfiction, the history of gay
people telling what life is, and was, during an important time of
history.

Biography
Born and raised in suburban Pennsylvania, he graduated from Columbia University.
He is currently a Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He has lived in New York City since 1971.

Bibliography
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Billy Idol
Zombie 00
Scary Kisses
The Golden Age of Promiscuity
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
Jailbait and Other Stories
The Daily News (poetry)
Finding the Boyfriend Within
Dating the Greek Gods
(essay in) Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon Books. 1996

Critical reception

His
book Jailbait and Other Stories was selected by Donald Barthelme for a
Pushcart Foundation Writer's Choice Award. His writing has appeared in
the Paris Review, Partisan Review, Bomb, the New Republic, Harper's
Bazaar, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Out, New York, the Los Angeles
Times Book Review, The Nation, Travel + Leisure, and American Poetry
Review.

His most acclaimed work is a biography of the poet Frank O'Hara, City Poet.