![]() ![]() In 1970, Hansen published Fadeout, his first novel to be published under his own name. He also briefly sang as apart of a folk music group, hosted a radio show called Homosexuality Today, and helped organize the first Gay Pride Parade in Hollywood. In 1965, Hansen wrote his first novel Strange Marriage, published under the pseudonym "James Colton". He continued writing poetry for various magazines, one of which was ONE, the first pro-gay publication in the United States. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he had several part-time jobs in bookstores and magazines. ![]() Hansen had begun writing at the age of nine his first published work, a poem, appeared in The New Yorker, in 1952. When Hansen was ten, the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota later, the family moved to Altadena, California, where a sister lived. His father owned a shoe store in Aberdeen, but it closed during the Great Depression. Hansen was born on July 19, 1923, in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Joseph Hansen (Jā November 24, 2004) was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter. American crime writer and poet (1923ā2004) ![]()
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