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Brent Hartinger is an American author and playwright, best known for his novels about gay teenagers.
Hartinger was born in Washington State. His family moved to Fircrest, Washington when he was an infant. He attended a Catholic (Order of Saint Francis) grade school and middle school, and a Catholic (Jesuit) high school, Bellarmine Preparatory. He earned a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and also studied psychology at Western Washington University.
Hartinger has published seven novels.
His first novel was Geography Club, about teenagers who secretly start a gay-straight alliance at their high school, which was challenged in some American schools, including schools in Hartinger's home town of Tacoma. The novel and its two sequels comprise The Russell Middlebrook Series. The Order of the Poison Oak describes the main characters' experiences at summer camp. Split Screen is published as two novels; the reader can turn the book upside down to read the story of a boy trying to choose between two boyfriends ("Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies") or the story of an openly bisexual girl who falls for a closeted classmate ("Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies"). Hartinger has written a stage version of Geography Club as well as a screenplay for a possible film version of the novel.
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