Scott Heim
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Biography
Heim graduated from University of Kansas in Lawrence with a B.A. in English and art history in 1989 and an M.A. in English literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in writing at Columbia University, where he wrote Mysterious Skin. He remained in New York City until 2002, when he moved to Boston.
Mysterious Skin was adapted for the stage by Prince Gomolvilas in San Francisco in 2003 and was adapted for the film Mysterious Skin by Gregg Araki in 2004.
Heim's fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in The Village Voice, Out, The Advocate, Interview, Time Out New York, Nerve, Christopher Street, The Minnesota Review, and many other periodicals.
Works
Novels
- Mysterious Skin (1995) (referenced in Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction (boys))
- In Awe (1997)
- We Disappear (expected March 2008)
Poetry
- Saved From Drowning (1993)
Contributor
- Waves: An Anthology of New Gay Fiction (1994)
- Best American Gay Fiction (1996)
- Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, edited by Patrick Merla (1996)
- Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of 20 Young Writers (1998)
- Best American Gay Fiction 3 (1998)
- Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Erotic Memoirs (1999)
- Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium (1999)
- Something Inside: Coversations With Gay Fiction Writers (1999)
- The Hot Spots: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (2001)
Filmography
- Mysterious Skin (novel basis) (2004)
