John Andriote

1958

New London, Connecticut

He has written about health, medicine, politics and culture for the Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines. He has specialized in reporting on Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome beginning in 1986. In 2007, Andriote returned to his hometown of Norwich, Connecticut, after 22 years in Washington, District of Columbia He continues to write and speak about Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, LGBT issues, and resilience. He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The Huffington Post. From January 2011 until October 2013, Andriote wrote a weekly opinion column for The Bulletin, the daily newspaper in Norwich, Connecticut. lieutenant was named an "honored book" by the American Library Association and a finalist in its gay/lesbian nonfiction awards and Kirkus Reviews called it "The most important Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome chronicle since Randy Shilts’ And the Band Played On". The Washington Post said, "Andriote has interviewed every major player during his nearly two decades of reporting on as a journalist and it shows". The Washington Blade said, "Andriote has honored his mentors, his muses and his community by preserving an important chapter in gay cultural history". In 2008, the Smithsonian"s National Museum of American History Archive Center created "The John-Manuel Andriote Collection" of his research materials, correspondence and recorded interviews. In 2010, Andriote interviewed more than six dozen additional activists, scientists and people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus for a revised second edition of, published in 2011 to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first reported Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome cases.

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Background

Andriote was born in New London, Connecticut, on October 6, 1958.

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He graduated from the Norwich Free Academy 1976 and later earned a Bachelor"s degree in English from Gordon College and a Masters degree from Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism.

Career

He has written about health, medicine, politics and culture for the Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines. He has specialized in reporting on Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome beginning in 1986. In 2007, Andriote returned to his hometown of Norwich, Connecticut, after 22 years in Washington, District of Columbia He continues to write and speak about Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, LGBT issues, and resilience.

He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The Huffington Post.

From January 2011 until October 2013, Andriote wrote a weekly opinion column for The Bulletin, the daily newspaper in Norwich, Connecticut.

lieutenant was named an "honored book" by the American Library Association and a finalist in its gay/lesbian nonfiction awards and Kirkus Reviews called it "The most important Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome chronicle since Randy Shilts’ And the Band Played On". The Washington Post said, "Andriote has interviewed every major player during his nearly two decades of reporting on as a journalist and it shows".

The Washington Blade said, "Andriote has honored his mentors, his muses and his community by preserving an important chapter in gay cultural history". In 2008, the Smithsonian"s National Museum of American History Archive Center created "The John-Manuel Andriote Collection" of his research materials, correspondence and recorded interviews.

In 2010, Andriote interviewed more than six dozen additional activists, scientists and people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus for a revised second edition of, published in 2011 to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first reported Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome cases.

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Won the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards "Editors" Choice" award.

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