Her 1998 historical novel Shimmer was set in New York City during the McCarthy era and features a black male protagonist and a white lesbian protagonist.Īn early nonfiction book was My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During The Reagan/Bush Years (Routledge, 1995) - a collection of journalism that begins before Reagan's election in 1980 and provides on-going coverage as the AIDS crisis began, includes some information about the early days of the AIDS crisis, which Schulman covered for a range of newspapers and magazines. The 1995 novel Rat Bohemia was listed as one of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels by The Publishing Triangle. In 1992, Empathy was released, an experimental novel about lesbian existence.

Schulman's subsequent novel, 1990's People in Trouble described the lives of AIDS activists. Dutton in 1988, and received a favorable review in The New York Times, was translated into eight languages, and was awarded an American Library Association Stonewall Book Award in 1989. Books such as The Sophie Horowitz Story and Girls, Visions and Everything were published by small presses. Schulman's early novels were set in the artistic, bohemian, lesbian subculture of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Sarah Schulman is the author of fifteen published or soon to be published works: nine novels, four nonfiction books, and a play. An early chronicler of the AIDS crisis, she wrote on AIDS and social issues, publishing in The Village Voice in the early 1980s, and writing the first piece on AIDS and the homeless, which appeared in The Nation. Elisa_rolle Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958 in New York City) is an American novelist, historian and playwright.

Empathy by Sarah Schulman