About: John Weir (writer)

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John Weir (born 8 February 1959 in Tarrytown, New York) is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (HarperCollins, 1989), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990, and for which he received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction in 1991; and What I Did Wrong (Viking, 2006). His story collection won the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and was published by Red Hen Press in 2022.

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  • جون وير (بالإنجليزية: John Weir)‏ (8 فبراير 1959، تاريتاون في الولايات المتحدة)؛ كاتب وروائي أمريكي. (ar)
  • John Weir (born 8 February 1959 in Tarrytown, New York) is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (HarperCollins, 1989), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990, and for which he received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction in 1991; and What I Did Wrong (Viking, 2006). In the early 1990s, he was a Contributing Editor at Details; and he has published nonfiction in The New York Times, Spin, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. His short fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, and elsewhere. In 1991, in conjunction with ACT UP New York's Day of Desperation action to draw attention to government and media neglect of the global AIDS crisis, Weir and several fellow activists interrupted The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Weir is associate professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York, where he has taught English and Creative Writing since 1993, and where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation. His story collection won the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and was published by Red Hen Press in 2022. (en)
  • John Weir é um escritor norte-americano que publicou The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (1989) e a aclamada novela (2006). (pt)
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  • The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and What I Did Wrong (en)
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  • جون وير (بالإنجليزية: John Weir)‏ (8 فبراير 1959، تاريتاون في الولايات المتحدة)؛ كاتب وروائي أمريكي. (ar)
  • John Weir é um escritor norte-americano que publicou The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (1989) e a aclamada novela (2006). (pt)
  • John Weir (born 8 February 1959 in Tarrytown, New York) is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (HarperCollins, 1989), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990, and for which he received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction in 1991; and What I Did Wrong (Viking, 2006). His story collection won the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and was published by Red Hen Press in 2022. (en)
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