Nationality American Role Novelist | Name Robert Rodi | |
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Area(s) Writer, critic, playwright, performance artist Notable works Codename: Knockout
Kept Boy Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Humor Books Kept boy, Fag Hag, Closet Case, When You Were Me, What They Did to Princess | ||
Robert Rodi on casting Northanger Abbey with the Monty Python troupe
Robert Rodi (born 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist, and performance artist.
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Biography
Much of his fiction centers on gay themes and several of his novels are named after archetypes of gay male culture. Rodi himself is openly gay. The Chicago settings of his books also reflect his background.
Rodi's short fiction is collected in a number of anthologies, including Men on Men 5 and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Book of Dreams. His comic book work has appeared in Marvel Comics, the DC Comics imprint Vertigo, and other independent publishers. He was also well known in comic book circles during the '60s and '70s as a prolific writer of "letters to the editor" (as Bob Rodi).
Rodi was a founding member of the Chicago-area performance group The Pansy Kings and contributed plays and performed at the Live Bait Theatre.
His novel Kept Boy is in post production and scheduled for a 2016 release.