Christopher Cox (writer)


Cox, who was gay, is perhaps best known for his collaboration within The
Violet Quill. He later went on to become senior editor of Ballantine
Books.

This is the seventy-fifth 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.

He
was  a man of the theatre. He appeared in William Shakespeare's Two
Gentlemen of Verona, and later worked at the Jean Cocteau Theater, New
York City.
He died of HIV in 1990.
His birth name was Ray Cox Jr.

Christopher Cox (born 1949 - died in 1990) in Manhattan, New York City) was an American writer.

As
a member of the Violet Quill his role as a gay writer and editor played
an important part in the explosion of gay literature in the beginning
of the 1980s.

This is the seventy-fifth 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.

In its narrowest sense, the
Violet (or Lavender) Quill was simply a circle of gay male writers in
Manhattan who met a few times in 1980 and 1981 to read to one another
from their works in progress. In a much larger sense, however, the
Violet Quill commands interest because this group of friends and
rivals--Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran,
Felice Picano, Edmund White, and George Whitmore--helped create the
post-Stonewall renaissance of American gay male writing.



Bibliography
A Key West Companion, 1983