Patricia Nell Warren (1936–2019)
Author of The Front Runner
About the Author
Patricia Nell Warren was born in Helena, Montana on June 15, 1936. She attended Manhattanville College. She worked first as a copy editor and then a book editor at Reader's Digest from 1959-1980. She wrote several books including The Last Centennial, The Front Runner, Harlan's Race, The Wild Man, show more The Fancy Dancer, and The Lavender Locker Room. Billy's Boy won the Lambda Literary Award in 1998. She also wrote four books of Ukranian poetry. She was a LGBTQ rights advocate. She died from lung cancer on February 9, 2019 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Patricia Nell Warren
The Lavender Locker Room: 3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation Was Different (2006) 40 copies
Virgin Kisses 1 copy
Esprit (Issue Number One) 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Warren, Patricia Nell
- Legal name
- Warren, Patricia Nell
- Other names
- Kilina, Patricia (pseudonym)
Tarnawsky, Patricia - Birthdate
- 1936-06-15
- Date of death
- 2019-02-09
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Helena, Montana, USA
- Place of death
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Cause of death
- cancer (lung)
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Deer Lodge, Montana, USA
Purchase, New York, USA
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Sherman Oaks, California, USA - Education
- Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (BA|1957)
Stephens College (AA|1955)
Powell County High School - Occupations
- writer
gay rights activist
editor
poet
journalist
runner (show all 8)
copy editor
publisher - Relationships
- Tarnawsky, Yuriy (ex-husband)
- Organizations
- Reader's Digest
- Awards and honors
- StoneWall Society Pride in the Arts Literary Award (Literary Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005)
Lambda Literary Award (1998) - Short biography
- Patricia Nell Warren was born in 1936 and grew up on the Grant Kohrs cattle ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana. She has been writing professionally since she was a teenager in the 1950s, and a publishing professional since 1959. She moved to New York in 1955 to attend Manhattanville College. Warren landed a job at Reader's Digest where she worked as a copy editor, 1959-1964, and book editor, 1964-1980.
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richardderus | 21 other reviews | Feb 11, 2019 |
richardderus | 21 other reviews | Feb 11, 2019 | 
Three stars for historical relevancy and importance. I can see how much this book would have meant reading it when it came out but it didn't hold my attention. I didn't care enough about the characters to care about the sports part. Glad I read it but not sure I'd recommend it unless you were looking to fill in knowledge of past gay lit. Or if you really like track/sports stories.
A rather dated novel that opened the eyes of a lot of people in its time...
An improbable, but fun tale of teenage angst and sexual discovery. When a geeky young man goes in search of the identity of his deceased father, he gets a history lesson and meets a whole [very gay] new family. Sort of a cross between _The Karate Kid_ and _Catcher in the Rye_, this sequel is a stand-alone novel of growing up in Southern California.
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- Rating
- 3.8
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I've come to think of this as a very flawed book because its heroes don't get anything like their richly earned HEA. True to its times, death stalks them. But before that...transcendent love and not just slaked lust (though there's plenty o' lust-slakin' indeed). Revelatory for my 1976 self. I am sad it never got its movie...Paul Newman optioned it way back when and the bubble machine hit overdrive imagining him as Harlan...but I'm deeply glad it was around in its flawed glory when I was young and impressionable. Love! Ordinary, human love between two men, neither of whom wore marabou or make-up!
And then that ending. I think rising sea-levels started when gay guys hit the last three chapters of this book. It *still* hurts forty-three years later to think of the ending. My goodness, I'm even tearing up, I can not believe just remembering it affects me so profoundly!
Patricia Nell Warren, you did real good.… (more)