David Bergman (born 1950) is an American writer and English professor at

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, in

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part of the

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. He was born in

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, grew up in Laurelton, New York, and graduated from

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(1972) and earned a Ph.D. from

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(1978). He received the George Elliston Poetry Prize for his work ''Cracking the Code''. With Karl Woelz, he won a Lambda Book Award for editing ''Men on Men 2000''. He is openly gay and

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Works

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''The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry,''" University of Cambridge Press, 2015 *
You've Got to Hide it from the KidsThe Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide
2013. * ''Cracking the Code'' Ohio State University Press, 1985 * ''Heroic Measures'' Ohio State University Press, 1998 * ''Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature'' University of Wisconsin Press, 1991 * (ed.) ''Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium'' Plume, 2000 * (essay in) ''Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade'' * ''The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture'', Columbia University Press, 2004 * (ed.) ''Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality''

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, 1993 * (ed.) ''The Burning Library: Essays'' (by Edmund White) Knopf, 1994 * (ed.) ''Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-87'' (by John Ashbery) Knopf, 1989 * (Foreword in) ''Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists'' * (essay in) ''Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories'', Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon, 1996

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