Sky Gilbert
Sky Gilbert is an author, playwright, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He studied at York University and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. In 1978, he co-founded Buddies in Bad Times, now the largest and longest-running queer theatre company in the world. Sky is the author of eight previous novels, more than thirty plays, three volumes of poetry, and three works of non-fiction. He has been awarded three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, and the Silver Ticket Award, and has a street named after him in Toronto. In 2005, he won the ReLit Award for his fourth novel, An English Gentleman, published by Cormorant Books.
Books by Sky Gilbert
Rupert Goldmann’s “memoirs” trace the story of his life as a child-prodigy cello virtuoso, his flirtations and relationships, his experiences as an unrewarded composer, and his eventual, much-interrupted attempt to retreat into the world of his imagination.
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