Nationality USA Name Brent Hartinger Movies Geography Club Partner Michael Jensen | Spouse Michael Jensen Role Author | |
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Awards GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article, Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Books Geography Club, The Order of the Poison Oak, The Elephant of Surprise, Split Screen: Attack of t, Project Sweet Life | ||
Literary movement Gay teen fiction | ||
This time and place brent hartinger
Brent Hartinger (born 1971) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his novels about gay teenagers.
Contents
- This time and place brent hartinger
- Seven reasons you should read shadow walkers by brent hartinger
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Works
- Honors
- References
Seven reasons you should read shadow walkers by brent hartinger
Early life
Hartinger was born in 1971 in Washington State and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and studied for a masters in psychology at Western Washington University.
Career
Hartinger has published thirteen novels.
His first novel was Geography Club, about a gay teenager named Russel Middlebrook. It has been challenged in some American schools, including a school in Hartinger's home town of Tacoma.
Hartinger subsequently wrote three young adult sequels to Geography Club, which made up The Russel Middlebrook Series. A second series of books, Russel Middlebrook: the Futon Years, features Russel Middlebrook in his mid-twenties. A third, related series, The Otto Digmore Series, highlights a character from the earlier books.
A feature film version of Geography Club, starring Scott Bakula, Nikki Blonski, Ana Gasteyer, Cameron Deane Stewart, and Justin Deeley, was released in 2013.
Also a screenwriter and playwright, eight of Hartinger’s screenplays have been optioned for film, and four are currently in development. A stage adaptation of Geography Club has received regional productions in Tacoma, Salt Lake City, Edmonton, and elsewhere. A feature film version of his play The Starfish Scream, which has also received many regional productions (and was twice produced in New York), is in development.
Hartinger is a sometime-member of the faculty of Vermont College's MFA program. He also once taught creative writing at Tacoma School of the Arts.
Hartinger co-founded the gay entertainment website AfterElton.com with Michael Jensen and Sarah Warn. The site was sold to MTV/Viacom in 2006.
Personal life
Hartinger lives in Seattle with his husband, novelist and writer Michael Jensen. In 1990, he helped co-found Oasis, one of the nation's first support organization for gay teens, in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington. He is a co-founder of AS IF! Authors Support Intellectual Freedom, a group of Young Adult authors supporting intellectual freedom. He also worked as a counselor at a youth group home.
Works
The Russel Middlebrook Series (a young adult series):
Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years (an adult series)
The Otto Digmore Series (an adult series)
Other Books: