David Bergman

For other uses, see David Bergman (baseball).

David Bergman (b.1950) is an American writer and English professor at Towson University. He was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts , grew up in Laurelton, New York, and graduated from Kenyon College (1972) and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1978).

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.

Works

• Cracking the Code Ohio State University Press, 1985
• Heroic Measures Ohio State University Press, 1998
• Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature University of Wisconsin Press, 1991
• (ed.) Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium Plume, 2000
• (essay in) Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade
• The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, Columbia University Press, 2004
• (ed.) Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
• (ed.) The Burning Library: Essays (by Edmund White) Knopf, 1994
• (ed.) Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-87 (by John Ashbery) Knopf, 1989
• (Foreword in) Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists
• (essay in) Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon, 1996

Resources

• His entry on Zoominfo.com

External links

• An essay

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