Joseph Hansen, creator of groundbreaking gay investigator Dave Brandstetter, was born today in Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1923. He was nominated for Edgars for "The Anderson Boy" and "McIntyre's Donald," for a Shamus for
Gravedigger (1982), and for a Shamus for "Merely Players." He also received the lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America and Lambda Literary Awards for
A Country of Old Men (1991) and
Living Upstairs (1993). Four of his poems were set to music in a piece called
Vocalese by composer
Richard Rodney Bennett, best known for his scores for
Murder on the Orient Express and
Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hansen died in 2004.
"almost all the folksay about homosexuality is false. So I had some fun turning cliches and stereotypes on their heads."—Joseph Hansen, qtd. in Contemporary Authors.
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