Steven Corbin

Steven Corbin (October 3, 1953 – August 31, 1995) was an American writer.[1] He was best known for his novel Fragments That Remain, which was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Gay Fiction at the 6th Lambda Literary Awards in 1994.[2]

Originally from Jersey City, New Jersey,[3] he studied at Essex County College for two years before transferring to the University of Southern California to study film.[3] Although he dropped out of that program, he began to write as a hobby while working as a secretary and as a taxi driver.[3] He published his debut novel, No Easy Place to Be, in 1989.[3]

He published Fragments That Remain in 1993, and his third and final novel, A Hundred Days from Now, in 1994.[3] He published several short stories in anthologies and literary magazines.[3] He was also an HIV/AIDS activist with ACT UP, and taught creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.[3]

He died on August 31, 1995 of AIDS complications, in New York City.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Mark Sarvas, "Mentors: Steven Corbin". Los Angeles Review of Books, January 7, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Steven Corbin; Novelist and AIDS Activist". Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1995.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. ISBN 9780313305016. pp. 108-114.


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