Barr, James, 1976-....

James Fugate (pen name James Barr), author of several gay themed novels, plays, and articles was born in Oklahoma, but came to live in Holyrood, Kansas, after World War II. It was while in Holyrood that the bulk of his literary output was produced including his groundbreaking novel Quatrefoil published in 1950. In the 1950s Fugate began a journalism career as the area feature writer for the Great Bend, Kansas, Tribune. In addition to Quatrefoil, Fugate also published the collection of short stories Derricks (1951), the play Game of Fools (1955), and his second novel The Occasional Man (1966), as well as numerous articles, commentaries, and stories for the publications One Magazine, Mattachine Review, and Der Kreis. James Fugate died in 1995 in Oklahoma.