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John-Manuel Andriote
John-Manuel Andriote (born in New London, Connecticut, October 6, 1958; son of Anna Farnan Andriote and the late Manuel John Andriote, brother of Pamela and Susan) since 1983 has written about culture, politics, health and medicine for the Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines. He has specialized in reporting on HIV-AIDS, publishing his earliest articles on the epidemic in 1986.

His book VICTORY DEFERRED: HOW AIDS CHANGED GAY LIFE IN AMERICA, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1999, won the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards “Editors’ Choice” award. The American Library Association named it an “honored book.”

Kirkus Reviews called VICTORY DEFERRED, “The most important AIDS chronicle since Randy Shilts’ AND THE BAND PLAYED ON[].” The Washington Post said, “Andriote has interviewed every major player during his nearly two decades of reporting on [AIDS] as a journalist and it shows.” The Washington Blade said, “Andriote has honored his mentors, his muses and his community by preserving an important chapter in gay cultural history.”

In 2008, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Archive Center created “The John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection” of the research materials, correspondence and recorded interviews Andriote used to develop VICTORY DEFERRED.

Andriote also authored HOT STUFF: A BRIEF HISTORY OF DISCO, published by HarperCollins in 2001; a 1997 privately published history of Washington, DC's Metropolitan Club; and co-authored THE ART OF FINE CIGARS (Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1996).

He has also contributed chapters and essays to THE AIDS PANDEMIC: IMPACT ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY (Kenneth H. Mayer, MD, H.F. Pizer, editors, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005); CREATING CHANGE: SEXUALITY, PUBLIC POLICY AND CIVIL RIGHTS (John D’Emilio[], William Thompson, Urvashi Vaid[], editors, St. Martin’s Press, 2000); OUT IN THE WORKPLACE (Richard Rasi and Lourdes Rodriguez-Noches, editors, Alyson, 1995); and YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT AIDS (Alyson, 1988).

Andriote holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, a bachelor's degree in English from Gordon College, and is a 1976 graduate of the Norwich Free Academy. In 2007, Andriote returned to his hometown of Norwich, CT, after 22 years in Washington, DC. He continues to write and speak about HIV-AIDS, and is working on a revised paperback edition of VICTORY DEFERRED for publication in 2011, the 30th anniversary of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in the United States.

Andriote's Website is at [www.jmandriote.com].