Keith Hartman
Keith grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, which in addition to being "Rocket City USA" also has the distinction of being one of the few cities in America ever captured by a Russian general. (Or so the story goes. Alot of really odd things happened during the Civil War.) He graduated from Princeton University, then went on to study at the London School of Economics, then started a PhD in Finance at Duke University. Sometime around his third year of the finance program, he realized that he really didn't want to spend the rest of his life teaching MBA's how to screw each other, and ran away to become a writer.
His first book was Congregations in Conflict, an examination of nine different churches and how they dealt with the issue of homosexuality, sometimes in surprising ways--like the Southern Baptist Church which voted to marry two gay men, the order of seventy year old celibate monks who all came out of the closet together , and the Black Catholic church which expelled its gay organization in order to be more "inclusive". The book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and Keith appeared as a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation in conjunction with it.
His second book, The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse is one of those novels that really confuses book store owners, because they can never figure out which section of the shop to put it in. The critics have alternately described it as science fiction, mystery, social commentary, magic realism, and even a coming of age story. It won two Spectrum Awards for science fiction, was picked as one of the "Eight Best Mysteries of 1999" by The Drood Review of Mysteries, and was a double nominee for the Lambda Literary Awards in the "Men's Mystery"and "Science Fiction / Fantasy" categories.
Over the years, he's also choreographed dance pieces, written and acted in radio dramas, worked as a theater critic, and even spent a couple of years performing with the Princeton Mime Company. Keith currently lives in West Hollywood with his boyfriend Scott and his cat Urvashi, named after a Hindu Goddess whose principal duties consist of lounging around and letting the world admire her beauty. His hobbies include juggling, RPG's, and falling down in interesting ways.
His first book was Congregations in Conflict, an examination of nine different churches and how they dealt with the issue of homosexuality, sometimes in surprising ways--like the Southern Baptist Church which voted to marry two gay men, the order of seventy year old celibate monks who all came out of the closet together , and the Black Catholic church which expelled its gay organization in order to be more "inclusive". The book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and Keith appeared as a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation in conjunction with it.
His second book, The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse is one of those novels that really confuses book store owners, because they can never figure out which section of the shop to put it in. The critics have alternately described it as science fiction, mystery, social commentary, magic realism, and even a coming of age story. It won two Spectrum Awards for science fiction, was picked as one of the "Eight Best Mysteries of 1999" by The Drood Review of Mysteries, and was a double nominee for the Lambda Literary Awards in the "Men's Mystery"and "Science Fiction / Fantasy" categories.
Over the years, he's also choreographed dance pieces, written and acted in radio dramas, worked as a theater critic, and even spent a couple of years performing with the Princeton Mime Company. Keith currently lives in West Hollywood with his boyfriend Scott and his cat Urvashi, named after a Hindu Goddess whose principal duties consist of lounging around and letting the world admire her beauty. His hobbies include juggling, RPG's, and falling down in interesting ways.
Series
Gumshoe
1. The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse (1999)
2. The Gumshoe Gorilla (2001)
3. The Gumshoe, the Clone, and the Wannabe Vampires (2020)
1. The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse (1999)
2. The Gumshoe Gorilla (2001)
3. The Gumshoe, the Clone, and the Wannabe Vampires (2020)
Plays show
Books containing stories by Keith Hartman
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998)
(Bending the Landscape)
edited by
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Bending the Landscape: Horror (1997)
(Bending the Landscape)
edited by
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
