Occupation writer Genre fiction, poetry | Nationality American | |
Notable works Music I Never Dreamed Of Books Music I Never Dreamed Of Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award | ||
John Gilgun (born October 1, 1935 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American writer. He is best known for his 1989 novel Music I Never Dreamed Of, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.
His other works have included Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun (1981); the poetry collections The Dooley Poems (1991), From the Inside Out (1991), In the Zone: The Moby Dick Poems (2002) and The Dailies (2010); and the short story collection Your Buddy Misses You (1994).
A graduate of Boston University and the University of Iowa, Gilgun was a longtime teacher of English and creative writing at Missouri Western State University until his retirement in 2000.