| 词条 | Richard Hall (writer) |
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| name = Richard Hall | birth_name = Richard Walter Hirshfeld | birth_date = November 26, 1926 | birth_place = New York City, New York | death_date = October 29, 1992 | death_place = | occupation = writer | nationality = American | genre = novels, short stories, drama | notableworks= Couplings | website = }}Richard Hall (November 26, 1926 – October 29, 1992), sometimes credited as Richard Walter Hall, was an American novelist, playwright and short story writer.[1] BackgroundHe was born in Manhattan in 1926 as Richard Walter Hirshfeld to Jewish parents, who later changed the family's name to Hall after experiencing an antisemitic incident.[2] Raised in Westchester County, Hall served in the United States Army during World War II, and was educated at Harvard University and New York University.[3] He worked in advertising and public relations, and taught at Inter American University in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1970s.[3] Writing careerHis first novel, The Butterscotch Prince, was published in 1975.[3] As a book critic and essayist, he contributed to publications including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice and The Advocate.[3] He was the first openly gay critic ever admitted to the National Book Critics Circle.[3] His other published books included the short story collections Couplings (1981), Letter from a Great Uncle (1985) and Fidelities (1992), the novel Family Fictions (1991) and Three Plays for a Gay Theater (1983), a compilation of his stage plays Happy Birthday Daddy, Love Match and Prisoner of Love.[3] He died on October 29, 1992, in New York City, of AIDS-related causes.[3] He was predeceased in 1989 by his longtime partner Arthur Marceau.[3] LegacyHe posthumously won a Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2005 for "Country People",[4] a supernatural-themed short story originally from Fidelities which was republished in the 2004 anthology Shadows of the Night. Couplings was the subject of an essay by Jonathan Harper in the 2010 non-fiction anthology Gay Fiction Rediscovered.[5]References1. ^Steven R. Serafin and Alfred Bendixen, The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. A&C Black, 2005. {{ISBN|9780826417770}}. Chapter "Gay Male Literature", p. 433. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Richard}}2. ^Claude J. Summers, "Hall, Richard" in glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. 2002. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/05/obituaries/richard-w-hall-65-an-author-who-specialized-in-gay-themes.html "Richard W. Hall, 65, an Author Who Specialized in Gay Themes"]. The New York Times, November 5, 1992. 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.spectrumawards.org/2005.htm|title=2005 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards|accessdate=2008-11-13 |year=2008 |publisher=Gaylactic Spectrum Award Foundation}} 5. ^"The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Edited by Tom Cardamone". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, May 4, 2013. 26 : 1926 births|1992 deaths|20th-century American novelists|20th-century American dramatists and playwrights|American male novelists|American male short story writers|American short story writers|American male dramatists and playwrights|American literary critics|Writers from New York City|People from Westchester County, New York|Harvard University alumni|New York University alumni|LGBT writers from the United States|LGBT novelists|LGBT dramatists and playwrights|LGBT Jews|Gay writers|Jewish American novelists|Jewish American short story writers|Jewish American dramatists and playwrights|AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)|American male essayists|20th-century American male writers|Novelists from New York (state)|20th-century American essayists |
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