Poppy Z. Brite

Quick Facts

Full Name	Poppy Z. Brite
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1967(1967-05-25)
Age	57
Birthplace	Bowling Green
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Taurus

Poppy Z. Brite Biography

Poppy Z. Brite is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 25, 1967 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States. American Gothic horror novelist, who is best known for Lost Souls, Drawing Blood and Exquisite Corpse. He was a transsexual and wrote numerous novels with gay male protagonists.

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Martin moved away from horror fiction and gothic themes while still writing about gay characters. The critically acclaimed Liquor novels—Liquor (2004), Prime (2005), and Soul Kitchen (2006)—are dark comedies set in the New Orleans restaurant world. The Value of X (2002) depicts the beginning of the careers of the protagonists of the Liquor series—Gary “G-Man” Stubbs and John “Rickey” Rickey; other stories, including several in his most recent collection The Devil You Know (2003) and the novella DUC*K, chronicle events in the lives of the extended Stubbs family, a Catholic clan whose roots are sunk deep in the traditional culture of New Orleans. Martin hopes to eventually write three more novels in the Liquor series, tentatively titled Dead Shrimp Blues, Hurricane Stew, and Double Shot. However, in late 2006, he ceased publishing with Three Rivers Press, the trade paperback division of Random House that published the first three Liquor novels, and is currently taking a hiatus from fiction writing. He has described Antediluvian Tales, a short story collection published by Subterranean Press in November 2007, as “if not my last book ever, then my last one for some time.” He still writes short non-fiction pieces, including guest editorials for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a food article for Chile Pepper Magazine.

Martin is best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories. His trademarks include featuring gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events. Some of Martin’s better known novels include Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and the controversial serial killer novel Exquisite Corpse (1996); he has also released the short fiction collections Wormwood (originally published as Swamp Foetus; 1993), Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also published as Self-Made Man; 1998), Wrong Things (with Caitlin R. Kiernan; 2001), and The Devil You Know (2003). His “Calcutta: Lord of Nerves” was selected to represent the year 1992 in the story anthology The Century’s Best Horror Fiction.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, he was born Melissa Ann Brite. He remained in a long-term relationship until 2011 with Chris DeBarr, a chef. He later began dating photographer Grey Cross.

Poppy Z. Brite Net Worth

Poppy Z. Brite is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Poppy Z. Brite 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His early years of adulthood were spent in Athens, Georgia, and Chapel Hill (North Carolina).

He considers himself to be a gay man, born in a woman’s body, and has had gender reassignment surgery.

Billy Martin (born May 25, 1967), known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. His later work moved into the genre of dark comedy, with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Martin’s novels are typically standalone books but may feature recurring characters from previous novels and short stories. Much of his work features openly bisexual and gay characters.

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Martin was born in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, at Western University Hospital. He has written and talked extensively about his gender dysphoria and transgender issues. He is a gay man, and has said, “Ever since I was old enough to know what gay men were, I’ve considered myself a gay man that happens to have been born in a female body, and that’s the perspective I’m coming from.” In 2003, Martin wrote that, while gender theorists like Kate Bornstein would call him a “nonoperative transsexual”, Martin would not insist on a label, writing “I’m just me”. In August 2010, he began hormone therapy, and in 2011 expressed that he would prefer to be referred to by male pronouns.

Facts & Trivia

Poppy Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Poppy Z. Brite celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

On January 6, 2009, Martin was arrested at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in New Orleans as part of a peaceable demonstration in which churches in the Uptown area of the city were occupied to protest their closings. In August 2009, New Orleans’s Gambit Weekly publication published reader-poll results naming Martin in second place as an ever-popular “Best Local Author.”