List of LGBT characters in modern written fiction
1900s
Table:
Work

Year

Author

Character name(s)

Notes

References

Advise and Consent

1959

Allen Drury

Brigham Anderson

Bisexual. Married US senator Anderson is blackmailed over a secret wartime homosexual affair for which he is unapologetic.

[20][21]

Affinity

1999

Sarah Waters

Margaret Prior
Selina Dawes

Lesbian

[22]

Alex Delaware series

1985–2017

Jonathan Kellerman

Milo Sturgis

Gay

[23]

Along the Journey River

1996

Carole LaFavor

Renee LaRoche

Lesbian

[24]

American Psycho

1991

Bret Easton Ellis

Luis Carruthers

Gay. In love with the male protagonist, but later marries Courtney.

[25]

Annie on My Mind

1982

Nancy Garden

Annie Kenyon
Liza Winthrop

Lesbian

[26]

The Arizona Kid

1988

Ron Koertge

Wes

Gay

[27]

An Arrow's Flight

1998

Mark Merlis

Pyrrhus
Philoctetes

Gay

[28][29]

Arrows of the Queen

1987

Mercedes Lackey

Keren

Lesbian. Life bonded to Ylsa and then Sherrill.

[30]

The Beauty of Men

1996

Andrew Holleran

Lark
Becker

Gay

[31]

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles

1957–60

Ann Bannon

Beebo Brinker
Beth Ayers/Cullison
Laura Landon

Lesbian

[32]

The Bell Jar

1963

Sylvia Plath

Joan

Lesbian

[33]

Blood of the Fold
Temple of the Winds

1996
1997

Terry Goodkind

Berdine
Raina

Lesbian. The two Mord-Sith are in a relationship with each other.

[34]

The Blue Place

1998

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen

Lesbian

[35]

Boy Culture

1995

Matthew Rettenmund

X
Andrew
Joe

Gay. X (narrator's pseudonym) has sexual and romantic relationships with Andrew, Joe and other men.

[4]

Breakfast on Pluto

1998

Patrick McCabe

Patrick "Pussy" Braden

Transgender. Braden is an Irish trans woman.

[36][37]

Brideshead Revisited

1945

Evelyn Waugh

Anthony Blanche
Sebastian Flyte

Gay

[38][39][40]

"Brokeback Mountain" (short story)

1997

Annie Proulx

Jack Twist
Ennis del Mar

Gay. Jack and Ennis have a long term sexual and romantic relationship despite both being married to women and fathering children. Jack also has sexual relationships with other men and a woman, while Ennis does not. Critics have described both men as gay or variably Jack as bisexual and Ennis as heterosexual.

[41][42]

Captain Underpants series

1997–2015

Dav Pilkey

Harold Hutchins

Gay

[43]

The Charioteer

1953

Mary Renault

Laurie Odell
Ralph Lanyon
Andrew

Gay

[44][45]

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Advise and Consent is a 1959 political novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell , whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence - explored in the novel - that the nominee was a member of the Communist Party . The chief characters ' responses to the evidence , and their efforts to spread or suppress it , form the basis of the novel . The novel spent 102 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 and was adapted into a successful 1962 film starring Henry Fonda . It was followed by Drury 's A Shade of Difference in 1962 , and four additional sequels .
Allen Stuart Drury ( September 2 , 1918 - September 2 , 1998 ) was an American novelist . He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent , for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 .
Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met . It is often damaging information , and may be revealed to family members or associates rather than to the general public . It may involve using threats of physical , mental or emotional harm , or of criminal prosecution , against the victim or someone close to the victim . It is normally carried out for personal gain , most commonly of position , money , or property . Blackmail may also be considered a form of extortion . Although the two are generally synonymous , extortion is the taking of personal property by threat of future harm . Blackmail is the use of threat to prevent another from engaging in a lawful occupation and writing libelous letters or letters that provoke a breach of the peace , as well as use of intimidation for purposes of collecting an unpaid debt . In many jurisdictions , blackmail is a statutory offense , often criminal , carrying punitive sanctions for convicted perpetrators . Blackmail is the name of a statutory offense in the United States , England and Wales , and Australia , and has been used as a convenient way of referring to certain other offenses , but was not a term used in English law until 1968 . Blackmail originally meant payments rendered by settlers in the counties of England bordering Scotland in exchange for protection from Scottish thieves and marauders . The mail part of blackmail derives from Middle English male meaning rent or tribute . This tribute ( male or reditus ) was paid in goods or labour ( nigri ) ; hence reditus nigri , or blackmail .
Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters . It is the author 's second novel , following her debut Tipping the Velvet . Set during 1870 's Victorian England , it tells the story of a woman , Margaret Prior , who is haunted by a shadowy past and in an attempt to cure her recent bout of illness and depression , begins visits to the women 's wards of Millbank Prison . Whilst there she becomes entranced by the spiritualist Selina Dawes , with whom she becomes obsessed and begins an inappropriate relationship . Written as an epistolary novel , the story alternates as a series of diary entries written by both main characters . Like her first novel , Affinity contains overarching lesbian themes , and was acclaimed by critics on its publication .
Sarah Ann Waters OBE ( born 21 July 1966 ) is a Welsh novelist . She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists , such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith .
Alex Delaware is a literary character created by American writer Jonathan Kellerman . The Alex Delaware detective series begins with When the Bough Breaks , published in 1985 . Delaware appears in 32 of Kellerman 's popular murder mysteries . Kellerman set the series in Los Angeles . Delaware is a forensic psychologist , although Kellerman wrote a back story in which Delaware practiced as a child psychologist . Delaware has a friend , Milo Sturgis , who is a gay LAPD detective . Delaware helps Sturgis in his investigations , and the detective , who eventually reaches the rank of lieutenant , appears in each book in the series . As the series progresses , Delaware 's relationship with Robin Castagna evolves , despite two long separations , during which various other romantic interests are introduced . In some of the more recent books in the series , Detective Petra Connor , introduced in Kellerman 's standalone novel Billy Straight , also makes an appearance .
Jonathan Seth Kellerman ( born August 9 , 1949 ) is an American novelist , psychologist , and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author best known for his popular mystery novels featuring the character Alex Delaware , a child psychologist who consults for the Los Angeles police department . Born on the Lower East Side of New York City , his family relocated to Los Angeles when Jonathan was nine years old . Kellerman graduated from the University of Southern California ( USC ) with a Ph.D in Psychology in 1974 and began working as a staff psychologist at the University of Southern California School of Medicine where he eventually became a full clinical professor of pediatrics . He opened a private practice in the early 1980s while writing novels in his garage at night . His first published novel , When the Bough Breaks appeared in 1985 , many years after writing and having works rejected . He then wrote five best selling novels while still a practicing psychologist . In 1990 he quit his private practice to write full-time . He has written more than 40 crime novels as well as non-fiction works and children 's books .
Carole S. LaFavor ( 1942-2011 ) was an Ojibwe novelist , Native American rights activist and nurse . Known for her HIV/AIDS activism , she was featured in Mona Smith 's 1988 film Her Giveway about her experiences living with the disease . Her two novels , Along the Journey River and Evil Dead Center were both published by Firebrand Books and her essay Walking the Red Road appears in the anthology Positive Women : Voices of Women Living with AIDS edited by Andrea Rudd and Darien Taylor .
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis , published in 1991 . The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman , a serial killer and Manhattan businessman . Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while some countries [ deem it ] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped , critics rave about it and academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities . A film adaptation starring Christian Bale as Bateman was released in 2000 to generally favorable reviews . In 2008 , it was confirmed that producers David Johnson and Jesse Singer were developing a musical adaptation of the novel to appear on Broadway . The musical premiered at the Almeida Theatre , London in December 2013 .
Bret Easton Ellis ( born March 7 , 1964 ) is an American author , screenwriter , short-story writer , and director . Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack , which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney . He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique , as a writer , is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style . His novels commonly share recurring characters . When Ellis was 21 , his first novel , the controversial bestseller Less Than Zero ( 1985 ) , was published by Simon & Schuster . His third novel , American Psycho ( 1991 ) , was his most successful ; upon its release , the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic . Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster , the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year . Ellis 's novels have become increasingly metafictional . Lunar Park ( 2005 ) , a pseudo-memoir and ghost story , received positive reviews . Imperial Bedrooms ( 2010 ) , marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero , continues in this vein . Four of Ellis 's works have been made into films . Less Than Zero was adapted in 1987 as a film of the same name , but the film bore little resemblance to the novel .
Annie On My Mind is a 1982 novel by Nancy Garden about the romantic relationship between two 17-year-old New York City girls , Annie and Liza .
Nancy Garden ( May 15 , 1938 - June 23 , 2014 ) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults , best known for the lesbian novel Annie on My Mind . She received the 2003 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association recognizing her lifetime contribution in writing for teens , citing Annie alone . Annie On My Mind was awarded the Lee Lynch Classic Award by the Golden Crown Literary Society in 2014 , cited as one of the most important classics in lesbian literature . [ citation needed ]
The Arizona Kid is a 1988 novel by Ron Koertge about a summer 16-year-old Billy spends living with his gay uncle and working with race horses .
An Arrow 's Flight ( ISBN 978-0-312-24288-6 ) is a novel by Mark Merlis , published in 1998 .
Mark Merlis ( March 9 , 1950 - August 15 , 2017 ) was an American writer and health policy analyst . Born in Framingham , Massachusetts and raised in Baltimore , Maryland , Merlis attended Wesleyan University and Brown University . He subsequently took a job with the Maryland Department of Health to support himself while writing . In 1987 , he took a job with the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress as a social legislation specialist , and was involved in the creation of the Ryan White Care Act . Beginning in the 1990s , Merlis published a series of novels . His first novel , American Studies , was published in 1994 and won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 1995 , and his second , An Arrow 's Flight , was published in 1998 and won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction . He published two further novels during his lifetime , Man About Town in 2003 and JD in 2015 . Merlis lived in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and worked both as an author and an independent health policy consultant . He died on August 15 , 2017 , at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia , from pneumonia associated with ALS . He was 67 years old . He is survived by his husband of many years , Robert Ashe .
This is a list of books by Mercedes Lackey , arranged by collection .
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey ( born June 24 , 1950 ) is an American writer of fantasy novels . Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth , mostly in and around the country of Valdemar . Her Valdemar novels include interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores . Her other main world is one much like our own , but it includes clandestine populations of elves , mages , vampires , and other mythical beings . The Bedlam 's Bard books describe a young man with the power to work magic through music ; the SERRAted Edge books are about racecar driving elves ; and the Diana Tregarde thrillers center on a Wiccan who combats evil . She has also published several novels re-working well-known fairy tales set in a mid-19th to early 20th century setting in which magic is real , although hidden from the mundane world . These novels explore issues of ecology , social class , and gender roles . Lackey has published over 140 books and writes novels at a rate of 5.5 per year on average . She has been called one of the most prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of all time .
The Beauty of Men is a 1996 novel by Andrew Holleran , about Lark , a 47-year-old single gay man , who has moved to Florida to help care for his mother , who became paralyzed after a fall .
Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber ( born 1943 ) , an American novelist , essayist , and short story writer , born and partly raised in Aruba , in the Dutch Caribbean . He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature . He was a member of The Violet Quill , a gay writer 's group that met briefly from 1980-81 . The Violet Quill included other prolific gay writers like Edmund White and Felice Picano . Garber , who has historically been very protective of his privacy , uses Andrew Holleran as his pseudonym .
Ann Weldy ( born September 15 , 1932 ) , better known by her pen name Ann Bannon , is an American author who , from 1957 to 1962 , wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles . The books ' enduring popularity and impact on lesbian identity has earned her the title Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction . Bannon was a young housewife trying to address her own issues of sexuality when she was inspired to write her first novel . Her subsequent books featured four characters who reappeared throughout the series , including her eponymous heroine , Beebo Brinker , who came to embody the archetype of a butch lesbian . The majority of her characters mirrored people she knew , but their stories reflected a life she did not feel she was able to live . Despite her traditional upbringing and role in married life , her novels defied conventions for romance stories and depictions of lesbians by addressing complex homosexual relationships . Her books shaped lesbian identity for lesbians and heterosexuals alike , but Bannon was mostly unaware of their impact . She stopped writing in 1962 . Later , she earned a doctorate in linguistics and became an academic . She endured a difficult marriage for 27 years and , as she separated from her husband in the 1980s , her books were republished ; she was stunned to learn of their influence on society . They were released again between 2001 and 2003 and were adapted as an award-winning Off-Broadway production . They are taught in Women 's and LGBT studies courses , and Bannon has received numerous awards for pioneering lesbian and gay literature .
Ann Weldy ( born September 15 , 1932 ) , better known by her pen name Ann Bannon , is an American author who , from 1957 to 1962 , wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles . The books ' enduring popularity and impact on lesbian identity has earned her the title Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction . Bannon was a young housewife trying to address her own issues of sexuality when she was inspired to write her first novel . Her subsequent books featured four characters who reappeared throughout the series , including her eponymous heroine , Beebo Brinker , who came to embody the archetype of a butch lesbian . The majority of her characters mirrored people she knew , but their stories reflected a life she did not feel she was able to live . Despite her traditional upbringing and role in married life , her novels defied conventions for romance stories and depictions of lesbians by addressing complex homosexual relationships . Her books shaped lesbian identity for lesbians and heterosexuals alike , but Bannon was mostly unaware of their impact . She stopped writing in 1962 . Later , she earned a doctorate in linguistics and became an academic . She endured a difficult marriage for 27 years and , as she separated from her husband in the 1980s , her books were republished ; she was stunned to learn of their influence on society . They were released again between 2001 and 2003 and were adapted as an award-winning Off-Broadway production . They are taught in Women 's and LGBT studies courses , and Bannon has received numerous awards for pioneering lesbian and gay literature .
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath . Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963 , the novel is semi-autobiographical , with the names of places and people changed . The book is often regarded as a roman à clef because the protagonist 's descent into mental illness parallels Plath 's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression or bipolar II disorder . Plath died by suicide a month after its first UK publication . The novel was published under Plath 's name for the first time in 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971 , in accordance with the wishes of both Plath 's husband , Ted Hughes , and her mother . The novel has been translated into nearly a dozen languages .
Sylvia Plath ( /plæθ/ ; October 27 , 1932 - February 11 , 1963 ) was an American poet , novelist , and short-story writer . She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections , The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel , as well as The Bell Jar , a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death . In 1982 , she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems . Born in Boston , Massachusetts , Plath studied at Smith College in Massachusetts and at Newnham College in Cambridge , England . She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 , and they lived together in the United States and then in England . They had two children before separating in 1962 . Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life , and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT ) . She died by suicide in 1963 .
Blood of the Fold is the third book in Terry Goodkind 's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth .
Temple of the Winds is the fourth book in Terry Goodkind 's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth .
Terry Goodkind ( born May 1 , 1948 ) is an American writer . He is known for the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines ( 2009 ) , which has ties to his fantasy series . The Sword of Truth series sold 25 million copies worldwide and was translated into more than 20 languages . Additionally , it was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker , which premiered on November 1 , 2008 , and ran for two seasons , ending in May 2010 . Goodkind is a proponent of Ayn Rand 's philosophical approach of Objectivism , and makes references to Rand 's ideas and novels in his works .
Nicola Griffith ( /ˈnɪkələ ˈɡrɪfɪð/ ; born 30 September 1960 in Yorkshire , England ) is a British-American novelist , essayist , and teacher . Griffith has won the Washington State Book Award , Nebula Award , James Tiptree , Jr. Award , World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards .
Boy Culture is a 1995 novel by Matthew Rettenmund . It centers on a call boy in the city of Chicago , Illinois and his two roommates . The protagonist goes by X throughout the book in order to maintain his anonymity . In 2006 , it was adapted into a movie by filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka , starring Patrick Bauchau , Darryl Stephens , Emily Stiles , and newcomer Derek Magyar as X . Award Nominated writers Craig Hepworth and Adele Stanhope are adapting the novel to the stage , Boy Culture the play will open August 2012 in Manchester , UK and will be produced by Vertigo Theatre Productions .
Matthew Rettenmund ( born December 25 , 1968 ) is the author of the novels Boy Culture and Blind Items : A ( Love ) Story , as well as the non-fiction books Encyclopedia Madonnica , Totally Awesome '80s , and Hilary Duff : All Access . He was the founding Editor in Chief of Popstar ! Magazine from October 1998 until May 2012 . He currently [ when ? ] works at Telepictures in New York . Rettenmund grew up in Flushing , Michigan and after he graduated from the University of Chicago , he moved to New York City , where he still lives . His novel Boy Culture was adapted into an award-winning movie in 2006 . He has blogged at BoyCulture.com since November 2005 .
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience . Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which the creator of the story presents their story , including :
A pseudonym ( /ˈsjuːdənɪm/ ) or alias ( /ˈeɪliəs/ ) is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose , which can differ from their first or true name ( orthonym ) . The term is not used when a new name entirely replaces an individual 's own .
Breakfast on Pluto is a 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe . The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize , and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and Neil Jordan ; Jordan directed the 2005 film . The author derived the novel 's title from the 1969 hit record Breakfast On Pluto by Don Partridge .
Patrick McCabe ( born 27 March 1955 ) is an Irish writer . Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary - often small-town - Ireland , McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize , for The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto , both of which have been made into films .
A trans woman ( sometimes trans-woman or transwoman ) is a woman who was assigned male at birth . Trans women may experience gender dysphoria and may transition ; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and sometimes sex reassignment surgery , which can bring immense relief and even resolve gender dysphoria entirely . Trans women may be heterosexual , bisexual , homosexual , asexual , or identify with other terms ( such as queer ) . The term transgender woman is not always interchangeable with transsexual woman , although the terms are often used interchangeably . Transgender is an umbrella term that includes different types of gender variant people ( including transsexual people ) . Trans women face significant discrimination in many areas of life ( transmisogyny , a subset of transphobia ) , including in employment and access to housing , and face physical and sexual violence and hate crimes , including from partners ; in the United States , discrimination is particularly severe towards trans women who are members of a racial minority , who often face the intersection of transphobia and racism .
Brideshead Revisited , The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh , first published in 1945 . It follows , from the 1920s to the early 1940s , the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder , including his friendship with the Flytes , a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle . Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes : Sebastian and Julia . The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy , Catholicism , and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte 's coterie at Oxford University . A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981 .
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ( /ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː/ ; 28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966 ) was an English writer of novels , biographies , and travel books ; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer . His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall ( 1928 ) and A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , the novel Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) , and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour ( 1952-1961 ) . He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century . Waugh was the son of a publisher , educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College , Oxford . He worked briefly as a schoolmaster before he became a full-time writer . As a young man , he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends and developed a taste for country house society . He travelled extensively in the 1930s , often as a special newspaper correspondent ; he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion . He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War , first in the Royal Marines and then in the Royal Horse Guards . He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people whom he encountered in his works of fiction , generally to humorous effect . Waugh 's detachment was such that he fictionalised his own mental breakdown which occurred in the early 1950s . Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930 after his first marriage failed . His traditionalist stance led him to strongly oppose all attempts to reform the Church , and the changes by the Second Vatican Council ( 1962-65 ) greatly disturbed his sensibilities , especially the introduction of the vernacular Mass .
Brokeback Mountain is a short story by American author Annie Proulx . It was originally published in The New Yorker on October 13 , 1997 , for which it won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1998 . Proulx won a third place O. Henry Award for the story in 1998 . A slightly expanded version of the story was published in Proulx 's 1999 collection of short stories , Close Range : Wyoming Stories . The collection was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana adapted the story for the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain . At that time , the short story and the screenplay were published together , along with essays by Proulx and the screenwriters , as Brokeback Mountain : Story to Screenplay . The story was also published separately in book form . This story has also been adapted as an opera by the same name , composed by Charles Wuorinen with a libretto in English by Proulx . It premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid on January 28 , 2014 .
Edna Ann Proulx ( /ˈpruː/ ; born August 22 , 1935 ) is an American novelist , short story writer , and journalist . She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A . Proulx . She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel , Postcards . Her second novel , The Shipping News ( 1993 ) , won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name . Her short story Brokeback Mountain was adapted as an Academy Award , BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005 .
Jack Twist is a fictional character of the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and the 2005 Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the same name directed by Ang Lee , where he is portrayed by American actor Jake Gyllenhaal . Jack 's story is depicted by the complex , sexual , and romantic relationship he has with Ennis Del Mar in the American West from 1963 to 1983 . Gyllenhaal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance .
Ennis Del Mar is the fictional main character of the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and the 2005 Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the same name directed by Ang Lee . Ennis 's story is depicted by his complex sexual and romantic relationship with Jack Twist in the American West , over two decades from 1963 to 1983 . In the film , he is portrayed by Heath Ledger , who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance . Ennis del Mar literally translates as Island of the Sea . Ennis is a corruption of the Irish inis for island and del mar is Spanish for of the sea .
Captain Underpants is an illustrated children 's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey . The series revolves around two fourth-graders , George Beard and Harold Hutchins , living in Piqua , Ohio , and Captain Underpants , an aptly named superhero from one of the boys ' homemade comic books , who accidentally ( kinda on purpose ) becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their ill-tempered principal , Mr. Krupp . Soon after , Mr. Krupp gains superpowers by drinking alien juices in the third book . Currently , the series includes 12 books , two activity books , 11 spin-offs , and won a Disney Adventures Kids ' Choice Award on April 4 , 2006 . As of 2014 , the series has been translated into more than 20 languages , with more than 80 million books sold worldwide , including over 50 million in the United States . DreamWorks Animation acquired rights to the series to make an animated feature film adaptation , which was released on June 2 , 2017 to positive reviews . After the main series concluded with the twelfth novel , Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot , in 2015 , a spin-off series titled Dog Man was released the following year . This spin-off series has eight books so far .
David Murray Dav Pilkey Jr. ( /ˈdeɪv/ ; born March 4 , 1966 ) is an American cartoonist , author and illustrator of children 's literature . Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the children 's book series Captain Underpants and the children 's graphic novel series Dog Man .
The Charioteer is a war novel by Mary Renault first published in London in 1953 . Renault 's US publisher ( Morrow ) refused to publish it until 1959 due to its generally positive portrayal of homosexuality . The Charioteer is significant because it features a prominent - and positive - gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller - particularly within the gay community .
Mary Renault ( /ˈrɛnoʊlt/ ; 4 September 1905 - 13 December 1983 ) , born Eileen Mary Challans , was an English and South African writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece . In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus , Socrates , Plato , and Alexander the Great , she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander .