Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman was born in New York City in 1958. She is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter and AIDS historian.

Her twenty books include: Novels: Maggie Terry, The Cosmopolitans, The Mere Future, The Child, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, Empathy, People In Trouble, After Delores, Girls Visions and Everything, and The Sophie Horowitz Story

Nonfiction:Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York 1987-1993 (May, 2021), Conflict Is Not Abuse, The Gentrification of the Mind, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, Stagestruck: Theater AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America,My American History:Lesbian/Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years.

Plays: (Published) :Carson McCullers, Mercy

Plays: Produced: Carson McCullers (Playwrights Horizons), Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons), Enemies, a Love Story (adapted from IB Singer- The Wilma Theater), The Lady Hamlet (The Provincetown Theater: July 2021)

Films (Writer): The Owls (dir Cheryl Dunye), Mommy Is Coming (dir Cheryl Dunye), Jason and Shirley (dir Stephen Winter)

Films (Co-Producer): United In Anger: A History of ACT UP (dir Jim Hubbard)