Kondoleon, Harry, 1955-1994

Harry Kondoleon (1955-1994) was an American playwright, novelist, and poet. Kondoleon graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1977 and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981. His plays include The Vampires, Zero Positive, The Brides, and The Houseguests, and his novels include The Whore of Tjampuan and Diary of a Lost Boy. The latter describes the experiences of a gay man with AIDS in New York City in the early 1990s, mirroring Kondoleon's experiences as a person with AIDS at the time. He received multiple awards and grants during his career, including the Fulbright Program, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Obie Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Kondoleon died in 1994 of AIDS related complications.