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Victor J. Banis Born 1937 Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States Occupation Novelist Nationality American Period 1960-present Genre Gay pulp fiction, Mass market paperback, Science Fiction Victor J. Banis (born 1937) is an American author, often associated with the first wave of west coast gay writing. For his contributions he has been called "the godfather of modern popular gay fiction." [1] He is openly gay. [2] Contents 1 Life 2 Writings 3 List of selected works 4 Footnotes 5 External links Life Born in 1937 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Victor J. Banis was the tenth of eleven children born to William and Anna Banis. As a small child, Banis moved with his family to Eaton, Ohio, where he lived on a farm and finished high school in 1955. While still in grade school, he began writing Nancy Drew-inspired mysteries featuring his classmate Carol Peters, now the writer Carol Cail. In his memoirs he writes about growing up in severe poverty. [3] On his own, he...