John Fox (writer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American writer, born 1952
Date of Birth: 26-May-1952
Date of Death: 14-Aug-1990
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About John Fox (writer)
- John Fox (May 26, 1952 – August 14, 1990) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
- Fox was born in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx and graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School and Lehman College. Fox's only novel became famous and influential.
- The Boys on the Rock, detailed the coming out and falling in love of a gay teenage swimmer by the name of Billy Connors.
- The novel is set in the heady political atmosphere of 1968.
- The author Edmund White described the book as “Some of the brightest, funniest, most touching writing about adolescence...And if ever a book will give straight readers an exact sense of what it's like to grow up gay, surely The Boys on the Rock will".
- According to his obituary in The New York Times, Fox died of AIDS in his Manhattan home in 1990, aged 38.
- He was survived by his parents, John Sr.
- and Joan, also of the Bronx; a brother, James, of Danbury, Connecticut; and a sister, Dorothy Schmidt of Malvern, Pennsylvania.
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