Fiction. LGBT Studies. DRAWN FROM LIFE traces the erotic and aesthetic development of a Midwestern painter—from a childhood fascination with both 1940s cars and the bodies of other boys, through an unhappily extended sojourn on the East Coast, to the inheriting of his grandmother's farm by the Mississippi River where he collects a barnful of Nashes, DeSotos and Kaisers, along with a reclusive ex-convict of a boyfriend in the painter's happily settled middle age.

Author Hometown: ROCKPORT, MA USA



About the author: Jonathan Strong grew up in Illinois and now lives in Rockport, Massachusetts. He teaches fiction writing at Tufts University and the Bread Loaf School of English. He has also taught at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Wellesley College. He has received the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, two O. Henry awards, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fiction has appeared in Partisan Review, Esquire, Shenandoah, The Atlantic, TriQuarterly, and the Transatlantic Review, among others. His books include MORE LIGHT (Quale Press, 2011), CONSOLATION (Pressed Wafer, 2010), DRAWN FROM LIFE (Quale Press, 2008), and the forthcoming Hawkweed and Indian Paintbrush (Pressed Wafer, 2012).

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