Poppy Z. Brite

Poppy Z. Brite ( born May 25, 1967 as Melissa Ann Brite in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American writer who became famous for their horror stories, particularly in English-speaking countries.

Life

Poppy Z. Brite was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1967. Already with three years she learned to read, at the age of five she began to write down their stories. As the parents of 6 -year-old Poppy separated, she moved with her mother to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

At the age of 18, she published the short story " Optional Music for Voice and Piano" in the magazine " The Horror Show". Poppy Z. Brite sold more short stories in "The Horror Show " until they received a letter from the author, Douglas E. Winter, who asked her novels.

Briton left college and dedicated himself to her first novel, "Lost Souls", which was published in 1992 by the U.S. Dell Publishing. 1993 drew Poppy Z. Brite back to New Orleans and published further with increasing success her books.

Today she lives with her husband and various pets in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

Work

Meanwhile, only " shallows of lust " and " Courtney Love" are commercially available. The pressure of the other two books was partly set on the basis of gross translation errors. So Poppy Z. Brite advises on their official homepage of " Lost Souls ", since all the passages as well as the epilogue missing.

A striking feature of Poppy Z. Brite's novels and a large part of their short stories are the gay characters. When asked about them, Briton said in an interview that even though no one would be surprised if they were all heterosexual.

Initially claimed Poppy Z. Brite only the horror genre, with her ​​novels of unusual character studies represented to psychopathic people. So is her third novel, " Exquisite Corpse " of two serial killers who are inspired by the legendary serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen. Briton tells the story that would have been able to play, to think the two ever met.

In her later novels, " The Value Of X", " Liquor", "Prime" and "Soul Kitchen" Poppy Z. Brite devotes more of Fiction, by telling the story of the two friends Rickey and G -Man.