John Gilgun (October 1, 1935 – April 30, 2021)John Gilgun, "Gay in Malden, Massachusetts" in Small-town Gay: Essays on Family Life Beyond the Big City (Elizabeth Newman and Curt Johnson, eds.) Kerlak Enterprises, 2004. . pp. 189-198. was an American writer.Jonathan Alexander, "Telling the Stories of Our Lives: An Interview with John Gilgun". International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Volume 5, Issue 4 (October 2000), pp 341-351. He is best known for his 1989 novel Music I Never Dreamed Of, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.Jerry Rosco, "John Gilgun (1935- )" in Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993. . pp. 149-153.
Gilgun's other works included Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun (1981); the poetry collections The Dooley Poems (1991), From the Inside Out (1991), In the Zone: The Moby Dick Poems (2002) and The Dailies (2010); and the short story collection Your Buddy Misses You (1994).Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: Volume One. Greenwood Press, 2005. . pp. 823-824.
A graduate of Boston University and the University of Iowa, Gilgun was a longtime teacher of English and creative writing at Missouri Western State University"PAPERS OF JOHN F. GILGUN". University of Iowa Libraries. until his retirement in 2000.
Giglun died on April 30, 2021, at the age of 85.
External links John Gilgun's papers are housed at the University of Iowa special collections
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