Kramer, Larry

Kramer, Larry( 1935– ),
born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale, began his literary career with a film version of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1969) but began his own authorship with the novel Faggots (1978) which “reflected homosexuality as I was living it,” followed by the plays The Normal Heart (1985), about attacks upon homosexuals from society and from AIDS, and a sequel The Destiny of Me 1992. Just Say No (1988), is a comic satire mainly on political figures. He also wrote Holocaust (1989), nonfiction dealing with AIDS.