Michael Rumaker

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Michael Rumaker is an American author (born March 5 1932 in Philadelphia, PA), to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970).

Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. His portrait of Charles Olson, Black Mountain Days, was widely praised.

Works

His books include:

The Butterfly
Gringos and Other Stories
Exit 3 and other stories
A Day and a Night at the Baths
My First Satyrnalia
To Kill a Cardinal
Pagan Days
Black Mountain Days
An Immodest Proposal
Pizza: Selected Poems.

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