Kramer, Larry

Larry Kramer is an award-winning playwright and author, and a celebrated public health and gay rights advocate. He wrote the Academy Award nominated screenplay adaptation of D. H. Lawrence s "Women in Love "and rose to further prominence with his bestselling novel "Faggots". A pioneering AIDS activist, he cofounded the Gay Men s Health Crisis in 1982 and founded ACT UP in 1987. Kramer has won numerous awards for his plays and received the 2013 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist.