Jim Elledge

Poet, biographer, historian, and novelist, Jim Elledge has been awarded two Lambda Literary Awards, one for his book-length poem A History of My Tattoo and the other for Who’s Yer Daddy? Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, which he co-edited with David Groff. His most recent collection is Bonfire of the Sodomites, poems about the arson of the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter. His nonfiction includes the biography Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy; The Boys of Fairy Town, a history of gay men in Chicago’s first century; and An Angel in Sodom, the biography of gay rights activist Henry Gerber. Almost Famous is his debut novel.