Paul Russell is an

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, poet and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the

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for

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fiction, in 2000 for ''

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'' and in 2012 for ''The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov''. ''The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov'' is a fictionalized portrayal of a real person - Sergey Nabokov, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist

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, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known. Russell grew up in

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, where his father Jack was a mathematics professor at Southwestern at Memphis. He studied at Oberlin College and

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. He is a professor of English literature at

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."Speak, Imagination"
. ''Chronogram'', December 29, 2011.

Works

Novels

*''The Salt Point'' (1990) *''Boys of Life'' (1991) *''Sea of Tranquillity'' (1994) *''

'' (1999) *''War Against the Animals'' (2003) *''The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov'' (2012) *''Immaculate Blue'' (2015)

Non-fiction

*''The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present'' (1995)

References

External links

Paul Russell official website
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