Author · 1945–1994
John Preston
John Preston was an American writer (1945-1994). Born in Medfield.
Our catalogue lists 7 books by John Preston, mostly gay fiction. They span 1983 to 1995. The most-read is Mr. Benson (1983).
Books by John Preston
Mr. Benson
John Preston
Entertainment for a Master
John Preston, Mirron Willis
Franny, the Queen of Provincetown (Little Sister's Classics)
John Preston
I Once Had a Master and Other Tales of Erotic Love
John Preston
Flesh and the Word 3
John Preston, Michael Lowenthal
Flesh and the Word
John Preston
Sweet Dreams (Mission of Alex Kane)
John Preston
Awards
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1995 — Anthology (Non-fiction), Sister and Brother (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Gay Anthology, A Member of the Family (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Gay Anthology, Flesh and the Word (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1992 — Gay Anthology, Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall (winner)
Biography
John Preston, born in Medfield, Massachusetts, was an author of gay erotica and an editor of gay nonfiction anthologies. Preston was among the first writers to popularize the genre of safe sex stories, editing a safe sex anthology entitled Hot Living in 1985. He helped to found the AIDS Project of Southern Maine. In the late 1980s, he discovered that he himself was HIV positive. Some of his last essays, found in his nonfiction anthologies and in his posthumous collection Winter's Light, describe his struggle to come emotionally to terms with a disease that had already killed many of his friends and fellow writers.