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Poppy Z. Brite was born on 25 May, 1967 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S., is a Novelist, short story writer, food writer. Discover Poppy Z. Brite's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Occupation Author
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May, 1967
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Timeline

1967

William Joseph Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author.

1990

He initially achieved fame in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Martin moved away from horror fiction and gothic themes while still writing about gay characters.

1992

He is best known for his novels Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and Exquisite Corpse (1996).

His later work moved into the genre of dark comedy, with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world.

Martin's novels are typically standalone books but may feature recurring characters from previous novels and short stories.

Much of his work features openly bisexual and gay characters.

Martin is best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories.

His trademarks include featuring gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events.

Some of Martin's better known novels include Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and the controversial serial killer novel Exquisite Corpse (1996); he has also released the short fiction collections Wormwood (originally published as Swamp Foetus; 1993), Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also published as Self-Made Man; 1998), Wrong Things (with Caitlín R. Kiernan; 2001), and The Devil You Know (2003).

His "Calcutta: Lord of Nerves" was selected to represent the year 1992 in the story anthology The Century's Best Horror Fiction.

1997

Martin wrote Courtney Love: The Real Story (1997), a biography of singer Courtney Love.

It was officially "unauthorized", but he acknowledged that the work was done at Love's suggestion and with her cooperation, including access to her personal journal and letters.

1998

In a 1998 interview, in response to a comment that "Growing up in the American South [shaped him] as a writer", Martin mentioned that Southern writers Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Harper Lee, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner also influenced his writing.

Answering a follow-up question about his literary influences, he also included "Bradbury, Nabokov, W.S. Burroughs, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, Kathe Koja, Dennis Cooper, Dorothy Parker, Dylan Thomas, Harlan Ellison, Peter Straub, Paul Theroux, Baudelaire, Poe, Lovecraft, John Lennon... I could rattle off ten or twenty more easily; they're all in there somewhere."

1999

In 1999, his short story The Sixth Sentinel (filmed as The Dream Sentinel) made up one segment of episode 209 of The Hunger, a short-lived horror anthology series on Showtime.

2002

The Value of X (2002) depicts the beginning of the careers of the protagonists of the Liquor series—Gary "G-Man" Stubbs and John "Rickey" Rickey; other stories, including several in his most recent collection The Devil You Know (2003) and the novella D*U*C*K, chronicle events in the lives of the extended Stubbs family, a Catholic clan whose roots are sunk deep in the traditional culture of New Orleans.

Martin hopes to eventually write three more novels in the Liquor series, tentatively titled Dead Shrimp Blues, Hurricane Stew, and Double Shot.

2003

Critical essays on Martin's fiction appear in Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror (2003) by Brian Stableford and The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004) by S. T. Joshi.

In 2003, Martin wrote that, while gender theorists like Kate Bornstein would call him a "nonoperative transsexual", Martin would not insist on a label, writing "I'm just me".

2004

The critically acclaimed Liquor novels—Liquor (2004), Prime (2005), and Soul Kitchen (2006)—are dark comedies set in the New Orleans restaurant world.

2006

However, in late 2006, he ceased publishing with Three Rivers Press, the trade paperback division of Random House that published the first three Liquor novels, and is currently taking a hiatus from fiction writing.

2007

He has described Antediluvian Tales, a short story collection published by Subterranean Press in November 2007, as "if not my last book ever, then my last one for some time."

He still writes short non-fiction pieces, including guest editorials for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a food article for Chile Pepper Magazine.

Martin has often stated that, while he will allow some of his work to be optioned for film under the right circumstances, he has little interest in movies and is not overly eager to see his work filmed.

2009

On January 6, 2009, Martin was arrested at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in New Orleans as part of a peaceful demonstration in which churches in the Uptown area of the city were occupied to protest their closings.

In August 2009, New Orleans's Gambit Weekly publication published reader-poll results naming Martin in second place as an ever-popular "Best Local Author."

2010

On June 9, 2010, Martin officially stated that he was retired from writing, in a post entitled "I'm Basically Retired (For Now)" on his Livejournal.

He stated that he had "completely lost the ability to interact with [his] body of work" and then went on to state that business issues were a partial cause.

He also specifically mentioned being unable to disconnect from aspects of his life relating to Hurricane Katrina.

He ended his statement by saying that he missed having relationships with his characters and that he did not feel the need to write for publication.

Martin has since created a series of artworks themed on New Orleans and voodoo.

In 2010, he began hormone therapy, and in 2011 expressed that he would prefer to be referred to by male pronouns.

2011

The couple first met in 2011.

2018

In 2018, Martin announced he had returned to writing with a non-fiction project entitled Water If God Wills It: Religion and Spirituality In The Work of Stephen King.

In August 2023, Martin announced on his own Facebook page that he was writing fiction again, but that it would be a long time until it would be published.

Martin was born in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, at Western University Hospital.

He is a trans man and has written and talked extensively about transgender issues and his own gender dysphoria.

He is gay, and has said, "Ever since I was old enough to know what gay men were, I've considered myself a gay man that happens to have been born in a female body, and that's the perspective I'm coming from."

2019

Martin married his husband, photographer and artist Grey Anatoli Cross, in 2019.