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Billy Martin (born Melissa Ann Brite; May 25, 1967), known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He is a trans man and prefers that male pronouns and terms be used when referring to him. Martin initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. His later work moved into the related 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. == Work == 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 Caitlin 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''.〔John Pelan, ''The Century's Best Horror Fiction'', Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010, two volumes, ISBN 1-58767-080-1.〕 In a 1998 interview, in response to a comment that "Growing up in the American South (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." Martin wrote ''Courtney Love: The Real Story'' (1999), a biography of singer Courtney Love that was officially "unauthorized", but he acknowledged that the work was done at Love's suggestion and with her cooperation, including access to Love's personal journal and letters.〔(PzB (auto)Biography ) discusses the writing of the Love book.〕 In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Martin moved away from horror fiction and gothic themes while still writing about gay characters. The critically acclaimed ''Liquor'' novels—''Liquor'' (2004), ''Prime'' (2005), and ''Soul Kitchen'' (2006)—are dark comedies set in the New Orleans restaurant world. ''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''. 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. 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. In 1999, his short story ''The Sixth Sentinel'' (filmed as ''The Dream Sentinel'') comprised one segment of episode 209 of ''The Hunger'', a short-lived horror anthology series on Showtime. Of all his books, only ''Lost Souls'' is currently under option, by producer Paul Natale. Critical essays on Martin's fiction appear in ''Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror'' (2003) by Brian Stableford〔Brian Stableford, "Poppy Z. Brite" in Richard Bleiler, ed. ''Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror''. New York: Thomson/Gale, 2003. (p. 147-152). ISBN 9780684312507〕 and ''The Evolution of the Weird Tale'' (2004) by S. T. Joshi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poppy Z. Brite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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