Paul Russell is an American novelist, poet and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction, in 2000 for The Coming Storm and in 2012 for The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov.[1] The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov is a fictionalized portrayal of a real person - Sergey Nabokov, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known.[2]
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College Cornell University |
| Notable awards | Ferro-Grumley Award (2000, 2012) |
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Russell grew up in Memphis, Tennessee,[2] where his father Jack was a mathematics professor at Southwestern at Memphis.[2] He studied at Oberlin College and Cornell University.[2] He is a professor of English literature at Vassar College.[3]
Works
Novels
- The Salt Point (1990)
- Boys of Life (1991)
- Sea of Tranquillity (1994)
- The Coming Storm (1999)
- War Against the Animals (2003)
- The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov (2012)
- Immaculate Blue (2015)
Non-fiction
- The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present (1995)