List of LGBT Jews - Writers

Writers

  • Leroy F. Aarons, journalist/editor/author/playwright and activist founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA).
  • Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter
  • Steve Berman, speculative fiction writer
  • Jane Bowles, novelist and playwright
  • Alfred Chester, novelist
  • Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media (Jewish mother)
  • György Faludy, poet
  • Edward Field, poet
  • Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust
  • Sanford Friedman, novelist
  • Allen Ginsberg, US Beat generation poet
  • Richard Greenberg, playwright
  • Jacob Israël de Haan, poet
  • Marilyn Hacker, poet
  • Aaron Hamburger, novelist
  • Max Jacob, poet
  • Chester Kallman, poet and librettist
  • Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
  • David Leavitt, novelist and short-story writer
  • Leo Lerman, writer/editor
  • Michael Lowenthal, novelist
  • Herbert Muschamp (1947–2007), New York Times architecture critic
  • Harold Norse, poet
  • Marcel Proust, novelist (Jewish mother)
  • David Rakoff, essayist
  • Lev Raphael, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, reviewer
  • Paul Rudnick, playwright, screenwriter and columnist
  • Umberto Saba, poet and novelist
  • Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Jewish father)
  • Martin Sherman, playwright
  • Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist
  • Gertrude Stein, writer
  • Julian Stryjkowski, novelist

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