Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer was born in New York City in 1956, received a PhD in English from Stony Brook University in 1983, and moved to Europe in 1998. He has been a literary critic for the New Criterion (1983–93), film critic for the American Spectator (1986–90), columnist for the Advocate (1994–99), and is a longtime Hudson Review contributor. He has written for City Journal, the Wilson Quarterly, the New Republic, the American Scholar, the New York Times, the Washington Post Book World, the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, and the Pajamas Media website. His books include the essay collections Diminishing Fictions (1988), The Screenplay’s the Thing (1992), The Aspect of Eternity (1993), and Prophets and Professors (1995); the poetry collection Coast to Coast (1993); and Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (1997). A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society (1993), which challenged both antigay prejudice and gayleft orthodoxy, was a watershed in the gay rights movement, and in 1999 was named by columnist Dale Carpenter as the decade’s most important book on homosexuality. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within (2006) was a New York Times best seller, appeared in several languages, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His latest book, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom (2009), is now in paperback. Bawer has also translated several books, writes and translates for Human Rights Service at www.rights.no, and blogs at www.brucebawer.com.
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