Martin Wilson (born 1973 in

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal Plain, Gulf Coastal and Piedmont (United States), Piedm ...

) is an American writer. He is best known for his award-winning

debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ...

'' What They Always Tell Us'', published in 2008."Martin Wilson's debut novel What They Always Tell Us brings gay coming-of-age tales out of the YA closet"
. ''

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'', April 1, 2010. A graduate of

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and the

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,"The Banal and the Profane: Martin Wilson"

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, April 30, 2013. he is currently based in

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, where he works in marketing and publicity for

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. ''What They Always Tell Us'' won an Alabama Author Award for best young adult book, and was a nominee for children's/young adult literature category at the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards. The novel was also an Indie Next Selection, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection, and a CCBC Choices Book. His second novel, ''We Now Return to Regular Life,'' was published in 2017. Wilson has also published short stories. In 2010, he contributed an essay about John Donovan's influential LGBT teen novel '' I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip'' to the 2010 book '' The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered''."The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Edited by Tom Cardamone". ''

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'', May 4, 2013.

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