Paul Russell (novelist)
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Occupation
- Novelist
- poet
- short story writer
NationalityAmerican
AlmamaterOberlin College
Cornell University
Cornell University
Notable awardsFerro-Grumley Award (2000, 2012)
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College Cornell University |
| Notable awards | Ferro-Grumley Award (2000, 2012) |
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Paul Russell is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction, in 2000 for The Coming Storm and in 2012 for The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov,[1] a fictionalized portrayal of Sergey Nabokov, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known.[2]
Russell grew up in Memphis, Tennessee,[2] where his father Jack was a mathematics professor at Southwestern at Memphis.[2] He studied at Oberlin College and Cornell University.[2] He was a professor of English literature at Vassar College.[3]
