Robin Hardy (Canadian writer)
Robin Hardy | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1952年07月12日)July 12, 1952 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | October 28, 1995(1995年10月28日) (aged 43) Tonto National Forest, Arizona USA |
| Period | 1970s-1990s |
Robin Clarkson Hardy (July 12, 1952 – October 28, 1995) was a Canadian journalist and author.[1]
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Ottawa, Ontario,[1] Hardy studied creative writing at the University of Alberta and took a law degree at Dalhousie University before settling in Toronto, where he was a staff writer and editor of The Body Politic , a noted early Canadian gay magazine.[1] He also produced radio documentaries for CBC Radio, contributed to publications including NOW , Canadian Forum and Fuse , and was an activist for and the first paid staff member of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario.[1]
He moved to New York City in 1984, where he was an editor for Cloverdale Press and a founding member of Publishing Triangle.[2] He also wrote numerous young adult, science fiction, mystery and horror novels, primarily under pen names; Call of the Wendigo (1994) was the only novel he published under his own name.[1] He was also a freelance contributor to publications including The Advocate , Village Voice and Penthouse in this era.[1]
He also wrote poetry throughout his life, although this was never published as a book,[1] and submitted a short story, "Ghosts", to the annual CBC Literary Competition.[1]
He relocated to Tucson, Arizona in 1993.[1]
On October 28, 1995, Hardy died in a hiking accident in Arizona's Tonto National Forest.[2] His unfinished non-fiction manuscript The Landscape of Death: Gay Men, AIDS and the Crisis of Desire was completed by David Groff, and was published in 1999 under the title Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood. The book was a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Studies category at the 12th Lambda Literary Awards.[3]
Many of his papers and manuscripts are held by the archives of the New York Public Library.[1] Along with Scott Symons and Norman Elder, he was the subject of a chapter in Ian Young's 2013 book Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder.[4]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Robin Hardy Papers 1964-2001". New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division.
- ^ a b "Robin Hardy, Writer, 43". The New York Times , November 3, 1995.
- ^ Lambda Book Report, Volume 8, Issue 5. 1999.
- ^ "‘Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder’ by Ian Young". Lambda Literary Foundation, August 26, 2013.
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- Accidental deaths in Arizona
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