His second novel, Openly Straight, hit the bookshelves in late May of 2013. It won the Lambda Literary Award in 2009. His editor asked him to change the title so that it would appeal to people other than "football players who read." The resulting novel, Out of the Pocket, received strong reviews from his mother, father, significant other and one girl who had a crush on him in high school.
He wrote a novel called Audibles at Arizona State, and sold that novel to Dutton Books for Children in 2007. He slept on the couch for a week after making that call. He continued oversharing in graduate school at Arizona State, where he added People Pleasing to his growing list of character defects and parlayed that into the title of Most Chill Teacher of freshman composition.Īs a sports writer and editor for The Associated Press in New York from 2005-08, Bill once called his husband, who was at the time working a desk job, from the New York Mets dugout before a game. That character flaw earned him a GLAAD Media Award in 2002, for his column "Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays." That coming out essay made him a household name to tens of people across the country. He worked at ESPN and from 1999-2002, where he developed a penchant for sharing too much information about himself.
His fashion-free wardrobe robbed him of prospective dates countless times, as did his penchant for wearing a mustache that didn't suit him. He moved to Denver in 1996 and was voted Least Stylish Gay Guy in the Metro Denver Area (including Loveland!) for each of the years from 1996-98. He proved them wrong with a series of strange-but-true jobs in his 20s - driver recruiter for a truck driving school, sales consultant for a phone company, and temp at Otis Elevators. He still holds out hope for a Village People revival and has set up a Google Alert in case it happens.Ī B- student throughout high school, Bill was voted Most Likely to Avoid Doing Any Real Work In His Life by a panel of his dismissive peers. None of these career paths worked out for him. Bill played alongside the likes of the kid who always showered alone, the chronic nosebleeder and the guy with recurrent poison ivy.Įarly in his life, Bill decided he wanted to be a disc jockey, a professional baseball player, or the Construction Worker from The Village People. As it turned out, the highlight of his soccer career was at Camp Greylock in 1978, when he was chosen for the Camp's "D" team. His parents figured he'd be a great soccer player, based on his spirited kicking from inside the womb.
Expectations were high from birth - at least in terms of athletics. Bill Konigsberg was born in 1970 in New York City.
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