AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITION

RECOGNITION:

Was Corresponding Secretary, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle

Christopher Isherwood praised Curzon's first novel, Something You Do in the Dark, at an MLA meeting. His blurb, ending with "I greatly admire Daniel Curzon for writing this book," appears on the paperback. Playwright Robert Patrick has written a letter of recommendation for his permanent file at Wayne State University.

Terrence McNally, playwright, said of The World Can Break Your Heart: "I've just finished it and I think it's very powerful. Congratulations on a difficult job wonderfully done."

Member of ASCAP. Wrote the script for the 50th Anniversary of City College of San Francisco, at Davies Hall, 1985.

 

DISSERTATION:

"The War Within: Existentialism and Naturalism in the Fiction of Nathanael West"

 

ACADEMIC HONORS:

Listed in The Directory of American Scholars; Who's Who in the West; Men of Achievement; International Who's Who in Education.

 

WRITING HONORS:

Gay and Lesbian Literature, Gale Research Co., 1994. Contemporary Gay American Novelists, Greenwood Press, 1993. Appearance as novelist at MLA, 1982 and 1987; included in Bowker's Contemporary Authors; one-act play recorded for radio through a NEA grant; anthologized; 16 non-fiction articles published.

 

© Daniel Curzon-Brown, 1998