John Rechy
John Rechy was born in El Paso, Texas, United States on March 10th, 1931 and is the Novelist. At the age of 93, John Rechy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and literary critic.
Among other things, he has written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and broader America, and is one of the founding LGBT writers.
City of Night, his debut book that was published in 1963, was a best seller.
He has contributed to Chicano literature, most notably with his book The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, which has been taught in several Chicano literature classes around the country.
Literary career
Rechy is one of Mexican American Literature's founding authors, based on Mexican values and cultural issues that were not available to him in Mexican Films.
Although Rechy was writing his first book, installments began to appear in literary journals like Evergreen Review, Big Table, Nugget, and The London Magazine in 1958. These excerpts were fictional reminisces of his time as a hustler in New York, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, and they appeared with writers such as Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, and Jean Genet. In October 1963, the largely autobiographical novel City of Night debuted. Despite the majority of negative reviews that the book received at the time of its release, City of Night became a international bestseller.
In comparison to the dozen novels he has written to date, Rechy has published numerous articles and literary reviews in various publications, including The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and Saturday's Review. In his 2004 book Beneath the Skin, many of these writings were anthologized. He has written three plays, Tigers Wild (first performed as The Fourth Angel and based on Rechy's book of the same name), Rushes (based on his book of the same name), and Motherma as She Became, a one-act play.
In a 2004 New York Times article about a computer glitch on Amazon.com that revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews, Rechy was cited by journalist Amy Harmon. Rechy, among other writers, had "pseudonymously written their five-star reviews, Amazon's highest rating," according to the publication. As a result of this finding, Amazon stopped accepting anonymous reviews.
Beautiful People at the End of the Line, Rechy's latest book, inspired by "comic books and celebrity culture," was released in 2021.