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Born to a troubled rural family in Pollackville, North Carolina , Grimsley said of his childhood that "for us in the South, the family is a field where craziness grows like weeds". After moving to Atlanta he would spent nearly twenty years as a secretary at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital before joining the creative-writing faculty at Emory University . During those years, Grimsley wrote prolifically, with fourteen of his plays produced between 1983 and 1993. His initial forays into novel writing were less successful; the semiautobiographical which received the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award for Literature ( Stonewall Book Award ), and My Drowning , which won the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers' Award. Subsequently he wrote the High Fantasy novel Kirith Kirin , which won the Lambda Literary Award , or ''Lammy'', for best gay-themed science fiction or fantasy for the year 2000. Unusually, this classically-themed fantasy work was followed by a science fiction sequel, The Ordinary . Four of Grimsley's plays are collected in Mr. Universe And Other Plays . BIBLIOGRAPHY Grimsley, Jim, ''Out of Silence'', Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books'', 3, March/April 1998 http://www.brightleaf-review.com/Mar98/grimsley.html. Grimsley, Jim, ''Who We Are'', Publishers Weekly, September 30, 1996, pp 46-47 Howorth, Lisa. ''Jim Grimsley: Tales of Southern Courage'', Publishers Weekly, November 5, 1999, pp 39-40 |
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