Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer, whose most recent books are Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (Harper, 2017) and Rumi: Unseen Poems (trans. Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz, Everyman’s Library, 2019). His previous ten books include: Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & The 70s and the 80s; Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; as well as Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; three novels–Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity, Zombie00; a collection of stories, Jailbait and other Stories, chosen by Donald Barthelme for a Writer’s Choice Award; a collection of poems, The Daily News; and Finding the Boyfriend Within and Dating the Greek Gods. His work has been featured in numerous magazines including: The New Republic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Partisan Review,The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Art Forum, Harper’s Bazaar, The Nation, and The Daily Beast. A Guggenheim fellow in Biography, he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a Furthermore grant in publishing from the J.M. Kaplan Fund. A professor of English at William Paterson University, he earned his PhD at Columbia University, and lives in New York City.
Books in order of publication:
| Jailbait And Other Stories | 1984 |
| Hall and Oates | 1984 |
| Billy Idol | 1985 |
| Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction (Men on Men #1) | 1986 |
| Scary Kisses | 1988 |
| City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara | 1993 |
| The Golden Age of Promiscuity | 1996 |
| Finding the Boyfriend Within: A Practical Guide for Tapping into your own Source of Love, Happiness, and Respect | 1999 |
| Zombie00 | 2001 |
| Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America | 2002 |
| Dating the Greek Gods: Empowering Spiritual Messages on Sex and Love, Creativity and Wisdom | 2003 |
| Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor | 2009 |
| Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s & the ’80s | 2015 |
| Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love | 2017 |
| Rumi: Unseen Poems | 2019 |
| Rumi Cards | 2019 |
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