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It
is hard to believe that Paul Monette has been dead for 15 years. I keep
on waiting for another of his books to be published or another one of
his screenplays to be popping up on a movie screen near me. Who hasn't
seen his "Predator" or the classic "Scarface"?
This is the twenty-ninth 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.
Paul Landry Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an
American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.
Biography
Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and graduated
from Phillips
Academy in 1963 and Yale University in 1967. Conflicted about his
sexual identity, he
moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he taught
writing and literature at Milton Academy for a number of years before
moving to West Hollywood, a neighbourhood in
Los Angeles which has a large population of gay men, in
1978 with his romantic partner, lawyerBorrowed Time, chronicles
Horwitz's fight against and eventual death from AIDS. His 1992 memoir,
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, tells of his life in the closet before
coming out, culminating with his meeting Horwitz in 1974. Becoming a Man won the 1992 National Book Award in the nonfiction
category.1988 film Midnight Run, the 1979 film Nosferatu the
Vampyre, the 1987 film Predator and 1983 filmScarface. Roger Horwitz. Monette's most acclaimed book, Monette also wrote
the novelizations of the
Monette's last years, before his own AIDS-related death, are chronicled in
the film named after him, Paul Monette: On the Brink of Summer's End "By the end of his
life, Monette had healed most of his psychic wounds, but his rage
persisted."Monette died in Los
Angeles, California, where he lived with his partner of five
years, Winston
WildeMonette was survived
by his lover, Winston Wilde; his father, Paul Monette Sr., and his brother,
Robert Monette by
Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg.
Bibliography
- Monette, Paul (1975). The Carpenter at the
Asylum (Poetry). Boston: Little, Brown. - Monette, Paul (1978). Taking Care of Mrs.
Carroll. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0316578215. - Monette, Paul, The Gold Diggers, Los Angeles, New York, Alyson Classics
Library, 1979, isbn 1555834582 - Monette, Paul (1981). The Long Shot. New
York: Avon Books. ISBN 0380768283. - Monette, Paul (1988). Borrowed Time: An AIDS
Memoir. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0151135983. - Monette, Paul (1989). Love Alone: Eighteen
Elegies for Rog (Poetry). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312014724. - Monette, Paul (1990). Afterlife. New
York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0517573393. - Monette, Paul (1991). Halfway Home. New
York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0517583291. - Monette, Paul (1992). Becoming a Man: Half a
Life Story. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0151115192. - Monette, Paul (1994). Last Watch of the Night
(a collection of essays). San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0156002027. - Monette, Paul (1995). West of Yesterday, East
of Summer: New and Selected Poems, 1973-93. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312136161. - Monette, Paul (1997). Sanctuary, A Tale of
Life in the Woods. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0684832860.
