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Jim Grimsley


USA flag (b.1955)

Jim Grimsley is a playwright and novelist. Jim's first novel, Winter Birds, was published by Algonquin Books in 1994. The novel won the 1995 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Jim's second novel, Dream Boy, won the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature (the Stonewall Prize) and was a Lambda finalist. His third novel, My Drowning, was released in January 1997 by Algonquin Books and for it he was named Georgia Author of the Year. His fourth novel, Comfort & Joy, was published in October, 1999, and was a Lambda finalist. A fantasy novel, Kirith Kirin, was published by Meisha Merlin Books in 2000 and won the Lambda in the science fiction and horror category for 2001. He has published short fiction in The Ontario Review and Asimov's and his stories have been anthologized in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 16; Men on Men 4; Men on Men 2000; and Best Stories From the South, year 2001. Boulevard, published in 2002 by Algonquin, was again a Lambda finalist in the literature category and won Jim his second Georgia Author of the Year designation. His novel, The Ordinary, a science fiction novel published in 2004 by Tor Books, won a Lambda in the science fiction/fantasy/horror category. His latest two novels are The Last Green Tree, published by Tor Books of New York in 2006, and Forgiveness, published by the University of Texas Press as part of the inaugural James. A. Michener Fiction Series. His new story collection, Jesus Is Sending You This Message, was published in September 2008 by Alyson Books.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Romance
 
Series
Irion/Hormling
   1. Kirith Kirin (2000)
   2. The Ordinary (2004)
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Novels
   Winter Birds (1994)
   Dream Boy (1995)
   My Drowning (1997)
   Boulevard (2002)
   Comfort and Joy (2003)
   The Last Green Tree (2006)
   Forgiveness (2007)
   The Dove in the Belly (2022)
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Collections
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Non fiction show
 
Jim Grimsley recommends
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Don't Cry for Me (2022)
Daniel Black
"In the Swinton family, manhood is a priceless treasure passed from father to son, a litany of strength, work, dominance, stoic quiet, passion for duty - until Isaac is born, who cannot be man like his father Jacob, who ignites a war for both their souls that spreads through decades, across a continent, and into every corner of their lives. Whatever you believe about the truth of inherited lessons, Daniel Black's new novel will haunt you with the certainty that we are shadowed by our past, the sons of imperfect fathers, and the heirs of pain and beauty. This is a rich novel, full of grace, steeped in truth, a journey to be remembered."

Anthologies containing stories by Jim Grimsley
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Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005)
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Shannon Ravenel and Anne Tyler
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Upon a Midnight Clear (2004)
Queer Christmas Tales
edited by
Greg Herren
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The Year's Best Science Fiction Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002)
(Year's Best Science Fiction, book 19)
edited by
Gardner Dozois

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