“Geography Club” by Brent Hartinger is the first novel in the “Russel Middlebrook” series and was released in the year 2003. AS IF! Is a group of Young Adult authors that support intellectual freedom. He has co-founded Oasis, a support organization for gay teens and AS IF! (which stands for Authors Support Intellectual Freedom). He is married to Michael Jensen (an author and writer). He is also a co-founder of the gay entertainment site that is called After Elton. It is known as the “Otto Digmore” series.īesides writing novels, he also writes screenplays and stageplays. There is character in the early “Middlebrook” books that gets his own series. It takes place when Russel Middlebrook is in his twenties. Then there is the second part that is for adults and is considered the “Futon Years”.
The first part of the series is set when Russel is just a kid in high school, and is aimed at young adults.
There are two parts to the “Russel Middlebrook” series. One of the school’s was in Hartinger’s hometown, Tacoma. The first novel that he had published (which is called “Geography Club”) was challenged by American schools, due to the fact that it stars a gay teen that is named Russel Middlebrook. Hartinger studied for his masters in psychology at Western Washington University. He got a bachelor’s degree from Gonzaga University (which is in Spokane, Washington). Author Brent Hartinger was born in the state of Washington (sometime in the year 1965), growing up in Tacoma.
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