PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
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Edition 19 (2009) Winner
Richard Bruce Nugent
リチャード・ブルース・ヌージェント
Richādo Burūsu Nūjento
Aliases:
Richard Bruce / Bruce Nugent / Ricardo Nugent di Dosceta
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1906-07-02 （Washington, D.C.）
- Died
- 1987-05-27 （Hoboken, New Jersey） age 80
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Washington, D.C. → New York → Hoboken, New Jersey
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Painter, Dancer
- Active Years
- 1925-1987
- Affiliations
- Harlem Cultural Council
- Influenced By
- Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Wallace Thurman
- Influenced
- Isaac Julien
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunbar High School | — | — | — | — | United States |
Dunbar High School
Year of Graduation:
1920
Country:
United States
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Smoke, Lilies and Jade
1926 Short storyA modernist stream-of-consciousness style short story on bisexuality and interracial male desire.
HomosexualityHarlem RenaissanceBeauty
Gentleman Jigger
2008 NovelNovel written between 1928 and 1933, published in 2008.
Harlem RenaissanceHomosexuality
Sahdji
1925 Short storyStory set in East Africa about a tribe, interpreted as an African morality tale.
African cultureMurder
Adaptations
- [Ballet] Sahdji: An African Ballet (1920)
Bibliography
- Shadow
- My Love
- Narcissus
- Incest
- Who Asks This Thing?
- Bastard Song
- Sahdji
- Smoke, Lilies and Jade
- The Now Discordant Song of Bells
- Slender Length of Beauty
- Tunic with a Thousand Pleats
- Pooty Tang
- Pope Pius the Only
- On Harlem
- On Georgette Harvey
- On Gloria Swanson
- Lunatique
- Pattern for Future Dirges
- Paupaulekejo
- Tax Fare
- Gentleman Jigger
- Half High
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- ModernismStream-of-consciousness
- Recurring Motifs
- HomosexualityBeautyHarlem Renaissance
Legacy
Recognized as a gay writer and painter of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the few openly gay artists, bridging to the 1980s black gay movement.
Archives
- Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
In Popular Culture
- Fictionalized in the film Brother to Brother.
- Basis for the play Smoke, Lilies, and Jade.
Trivia
- One of the few openly gay Harlem Renaissance artists.
- Married in 1952, wife committed suicide in 1969.