Robert Rodi

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Robert Rodi
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, critic, playwright, performance artist
Notable works
Codename: Knockout
Kept Boy
http://www.robertrodi.com

Robert Rodi (born 1956 in

performance artist
.

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.[1] The Chicago settings of his books also reflect his background.

Rodi's short fiction is collected in a number of anthologies, including

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).[2]

Rodi was a founding member of the Chicago-area performance group The Pansy Kings and contributed plays and performed at the Live Bait Theatre.

The film adaptation of his novel Kept Boy was released in 2017.[3]

He is currently the head writer on

Toon In With Me
.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Fag Hag (1991)
  • What They Did to Princess Paragon (1994)
  • Closet Case (1994)
  • Drag Queen (1995)
  • Kept Boy (1996)
  • The Birdcage — novelization of the film (1996)
  • Bitch Goddess (2002)
  • When You Were Me (2007)
  • The Sugarman Bootlegs (2011)
  • Baby (2012)
  • Edgar and Emma : A Novel after Jane Austen (2016)

Nonfiction

  • Dogged Pursuit: My Year of Competing Dusty, the World's Least Likely Agility Dog (2009)
  • Seven Seasons in Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People (2011)
  • Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps (Volumes 1&2) (2012)

Comics

Notes

  1. ^ "Robert Rodi: About". RobertRodi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
  2. ^ "Bob Rodi letter". TheFourthRail.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  3. ^ Kept Boy at imdb.com

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