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] The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov is a fictionalized portrayal of a real person - 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 is a professor of English literature at Vassar College.^[3]

Works

Novels

• The Salt Point (1990)
• Boys of Life (1991)
• Sea of Tranquillity (1994)
• The Coming Storm (1999)
• War Against the Animals (2003)
• The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov (2012)
• Immaculate Blue (2015)

Non-fiction

• The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present (1995)