Sarah Schulman: October Portrait of the Month

Sarah Schulman was born in New York City in 1958 and attended Hunter High School.  She has a Bachelor of Arts from the Empire State College of the State University of New York.  She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, journalist, and active participant citizen. Among her best known novels are After Delores (1988) and Rat Bohemia (1995).  She has won numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim for playwrighting and 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships for fiction.  Among her non-fiction publications are:  The Gentrification of The Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2012); Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (2010); Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998); and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (1994).  She is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the College of Staten Island of he City University of New York.