About
A native of Massachusetts, Monette attended Yale University and taught writing and literature in Boston before moving to West Hollywood in 1978 with his partner, lawyer Roger Horwitz. Monette’s most famous work, Borrowed Time, chronicles Horwitz’s struggle and eventual death from AIDS. Monette’s memoir Half a Man won the National Book Award in 1992.
Monette himself died of AIDS-related complications in 1995, and a film, Paul Monette: On the Brink of Summer’s End, chronicles his last years.
–Christie Finn
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Songs
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Ned Rorem
Paul Monette
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Evidence of Things Not Seen
Song CollectionNed Rorem
W. H. Auden
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Stephen Crane
Mark Doty
Robert Frost
Paul Goodman
A. E. Housman
Langston Hughes
Jane Kenyon
Rudyard Kipling
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Paul Monette
William Penn
Theodore Roethke
Walt Whitman
John Woolman
William Butler Yeats