Sarah Schulman is a prolific novelist, playwright, and activist. She is the author of nine novels, including After Delores, which won an ALA Stonewall Book Award. Her newest novel, The Mere Future, set in a dystopian New York City, will be published in Spring 2009. Ms. Schulman has written extensively about the history of the AIDS crisis in America. Her articles on this issue have appeared in The Village Voice and The Nation, and her nonfiction book My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During The Reagan/Bush Years chronicles the early days of the AIDS epidemic. She has received numerous awards including the Guggenheim for Playwriting, the Fulbright for Judaic Studies, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowships, and a Revson fellowship. Ms. Schulman is an activist for the LGBT community and is a co-coordinator of ACT UP Oral History Project and MIX: the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. She is a professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and a fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. Ms. Schulman has worked with Behind the Book at Harvey Milk High School, where she led discussions with students who read her novel The Child.

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