About John Gilgun
Lived 1935 – 2021 (aged 85). John Gilgun was an American poet and novelist.
John Gilgun (October 1, 1935 – April 30, 2021) was an American writer. He is best known for his 1989 novel Music I Never Dreamed Of, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.
Gilgun's other works included Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun (1981); the poetry collections The Dooley Poems (1991), From the Inside Out (1991), In the Zone: The Moby Dick Poems (2002) and The Dailies (2010); and the short story collection Your Buddy Misses You (1994).
A graduate of Boston University and the University of Iowa, Gilgun was a longtime teacher of English and creative writing at Missouri Western State University until his retirement in 2000.
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American writer
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John Gilgun was born on 1 October 1935 in Malden.
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John Gilgun died on 30 April 2021.
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John Gilgun was a poet and novelist.
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