Author · born 1954
Michael Nava
Michael Nava (born 1954) is an American writer. Born in Stockton.
Our catalogue lists 9 books by Michael Nava, mostly gay fiction, angel fiction and M/M romance. They span 1986 to 2019. The most-read is The Little Death (1986).
Books by Michael Nava
The Little Death
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How Town
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Goldenboy
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The Death of Friends
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Rag and Bone
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The Hidden Law
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The Burning Plain
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Lay Your Sleeping Head
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Carved in Bone
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Awards
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2022 — LGBTQ Mystery, Lies With Man (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2020 — Gay Mystery, Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2018 — Gay Mystery, Street People (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2017 — Gay Mystery, Lay Your Sleeping Head (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2015 — Gay Fiction, The City of Palaces (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2002 — Gay Mystery, Rag and Bone (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1998 — Gay Mystery, The Burning Plain (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Gay Mystery, The Hidden Law (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1990 — Gay Anthology, Finale: Stories of Mystery (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1990 — Gay Mystery, Finale edited (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall, Howtown (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall (winner)
Biography
Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who Garth Greenwell, writing in The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of a historical novel, The City of Palaces, set in Mexico at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution, the first of a projected trilogy.