David Bergman (American writer)
David Bergman is an American writer and English professor at Towson University, in Towson, Maryland part of the University System of Maryland. He was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, grew up in Laurelton, New York, and graduated from Kenyon College and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
He received the George Elliston Poetry Prize for his work Cracking the Code. With Karl Woelz, he won a Lambda Book Award for editing Men on Men 2000. He is openly gay and Jewish.
Works
- " The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry," University of Cambridge Press, 2015
- "", 2013.Cracking the Code Ohio State University Press, 1985Heroic Measures Ohio State University Press, 1998Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature University of Wisconsin Press, 1991Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium Plume, 2000Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh GradeThe Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, Columbia University Press, 2004Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality University of Massachusetts Press, 1993The Burning Library: Essays Knopf, 1994Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-87 Knopf, 1989Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay NovelistsBoys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla Avon, 1996