

Not on the Publishing Triangle’s “100 Best” List ^ top Overlooked LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Authors Cornell Woolrich - I Married a Dead Man.Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes.Bayard Taylor - Joseph and His Friend.Frederick William Rolfe (under pseudonym “Baron Corvo”) - Hadrian VII.Edward Prime–Stevenson (under pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”) - Imre.


Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Series (nine novels).Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence.David Leavitt - The Lost Language of Cranes.Heinrich von Kleist - The Marquise of O….Sarah Orne Jewett - Country of the Pointed Firs.Joris-Karl Huysmans - À Rebours (Against Nature – aka Against the Grain).Henry Blake Fuller - Bertram Cope’s Year.Patrick Dennis (pseudonym of Edward Everett Tanner III) - Auntie Mame.Angela Carter - The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr.Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart.Horatio Alger - Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York.^ top 50 Overlooked LGBTQ+ Fiction Authors All public domain works here link to free copies. Summers’s encyclopedic Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, that includes hundreds of articles on individual authors, national literatures, artistic forms (such as the novel, drama, poetry), genres and more. For more information, an indispensable resource is editor Claude J. More LGBTQ+ Arts Resources: LGBTQ+ Cinema, LGBTQ+ Classical Music, LGBTQ+ Literature, LGBTQ+ Visual Arts, essay “Why a LGBTQ+ Focus?”īecause of censorship, which varied widely during the many centuries and countries represented here, some of these authors were unable to acknowledge their sexual orientation openly in their writing. There is also a list Recommended LGBTQ+ Books includes sections for Non-Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Fiction - including many titles not listed below - and more.

By the way, if I could add one title to an author already included by the Publishing Triangle, it would be Oscar Wilde’s extraordinary Portrait of Mr. But it excluded several outstanding authors and works, including all of the LGBTQ+ novelists represented below - whom I have limited to one work per author. The Publishing Triangle’s “100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels” is invaluable for showing some of the extraordinary diversity of LGBTQ+ literature. 50 Overlooked LGBTQ+ Fiction Authors and 100 Overlooked LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Authors.
