Robin Clarkson Hardy (July 12, 1952 – October 28, 1995) was a Canadian journalist and author.
5-595: The Publishing Triangle , founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy , is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry. They sponsor an annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and have sponsored the annual Triangle Awards program of literary awards for LGBT literature since 1989. The Publishing Triangle credits three individuals with providing initial support for the organization: Crown editor David Groff , Book-of-the-Month Club executive Richard Riger, and St. Martin's Press editor Michael Denneny ,
10-514: The University of Alberta and took a law degree at Dalhousie University before settling in Toronto , where he was a staff writer and editor of The Body Politic , a noted early Canadian gay magazine. He also produced radio documentaries for CBC Radio , contributed to publications including NOW , Canadian Forum and Fuse , and was an activist for and the first paid staff member of
15-731: The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario. He moved to New York City in 1984, where he was an editor for Cloverdale Press and a founding member of Publishing Triangle . He also wrote numerous young adult, science fiction, mystery and horror novels, primarily under pen names ; Call of the Wendigo (1994) was the only novel he published under his own name. He was also a freelance contributor to publications including The Advocate , Village Voice and Penthouse in this era. He also wrote poetry throughout his life, although this
20-699: The latter of whom co-chaired the first steering committee with Michele Karlsberg of Amethyst Press. This article about an organization in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender -related organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Robin Hardy (Canadian writer) Born in Halifax , Nova Scotia and raised in Winnipeg , Manitoba and Ottawa , Ontario , Hardy studied creative writing at
25-530: Was never published as a book, and submitted a short story, "Ghosts", to the annual CBC Literary Competition. He relocated to Tucson , Arizona in 1993. On October 28, 1995, Hardy died in a hiking accident in Arizona's Tonto National Forest . His unfinished non-fiction manuscript The Landscape of Death: Gay Men, AIDS and the Crisis of Desire was completed by David Groff , and was published in 1999 under
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