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Roberta Degnore was born on 19 July, 0046 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American author. Discover Roberta Degnore's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Born 19 July 0046
Birthday 19 July
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan
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1946

Roberta Degnore (born July 1946) is an American author, filmmaker, and psychologist.

Degnore wrote novels under numerous pen names before pursuing graduate studies in psychology and filmmaking.

1980

Degnore arrived in New York City in 1980.

With two other artists, she converted a 1500 square foot commercial loft in the Bowery District.

"It was all focused on the art scene," Degnore later told a reporter.

"No one had money back then. Everyone was just doing art because they loved it, and we gave each other respect because of that."

In the ensuing decades, the neighborhood had changed due to gentrification, and the building's owner sought to buy out the tenants and sell the building.

1987

Degnore was a close friend and confidant to art curator and photography collector Sam Wagstaff at the time of his death from AIDS in 1987.

She currently teaches courses in psychology at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

In 1987, Degnore received her doctorate in psychology from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

She now works in the Department of Social Sciences at the Fashion Institute of Technology, teaching a course in fashion choices and gender expression, and conducting research in positive psychology, social psychology and applied psychology with a current focus on gender expression and perception in fashion.

Degnore also holds a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Degnore met photography collector and art curator Sam Wagstaff while she was working on her dissertation for her PhD in psychology at the City University of New York.

Her artist girlfriend had taken her to his apartment and bid her not talk to "the great man", but while her girlfriend fell into conversation with Robert Mapplethorpe, Degnore and Wagstaff bonded.

In spite of the difference in their ages and socio-economic backgrounds, Degnore soon became his confidant.

"I shouldn't have fit into Sam's world," Degnore remembered.

"But we were obstinately and ruinously close...until AIDS murdered him in 1987."

When Wagstaff died of AIDS, Degnore was entrusted with destroying a cache of Wagstaff's intimate photos, including some taken by Mapplethorpe.

When Degnore completed her doctorate in 1987, she dedicated her dissertation to Wagstaff.

1989

In 1989, under the pseudonym Roslyn Dane, Degnore published The Assistance of Vice, a novel about the downtown New York dyke scene in the years before AIDS that she later described in autobiographical terms.

2004

In 2004, Degnore made a short film called F*Stop based on the novel.

2008

When he did so in 2008, he told Degnore to get ready to leave but she resisted, and was the last tenant to vacate.

Degnore says Richard Curtis was her agent when she began writing for a living: "great beginning, great mentor," she recalled.

Degnore wrote numerous novels using pseudonyms, including The Real Connection, an "as told to" autobiography of French entertainer and heroin smuggler Edmond Taillet, which was published under the pen name Rachel Desmond.

Some of her genre fiction, originally published under pseudonyms, is now available under her real name, including such romance and historical romance titles as Stuck Up, Gold Digger, and Until You See Me.

Other titles Degnore published under pseudonyms include Renegade Hearts, Between the Lines, and A Woman of New Orleans.

Degnore explains on her website that she wrote the books to pay for graduate school as she sought her doctorate in psychology, and used pseudonyms to keep her careers separate.

Degnore's early practice of psychology involved "working with artists in specialized creative block therapy".

2009

Degnore's other film writing and directing credits include HairZ (2009), and Heatbeat (1993).

2013

In 2013, Degnore published Invisible Soft Return:\, a feminist science fiction novel that was named as a finalist in the science fiction category of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.

2014

Her works include Invisible Soft Return:\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in 2014.

Degnore grew up in what she recalled as the "desperately middle class" suburbs of Detroit, just north of Eight Mile Road, with her mother and father, while her older brother, for reasons unknown to Degnore, lived not far away with their grandparents.

Degnore fondly recalls her cousin, Joe Groppusso, who was about a decade older than Degnore and acted as a childhood protector and early artistic and cultural influence.

She attended Wayne State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts as well as a Master of Arts in psychology.

After her mother's discovery that Degnore was a lesbian, Degnore left Detroit for New York City.

2019

Degnore read an excerpt of her memoirs about her friendship with Wagstaff at the 2019 Rainbow Book Fair in New York City.