Becoming a Man won the 1992 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. Monette also wrote the novelizations of the 1988 film Midnight Run, the 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre, the 1987 film Predator and 1983 film Scarface. His 1992 memoir, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, tells of his life in the closet before coming out, culminating with his meeting Horwitz in 1974. Monette's most acclaimed book, Borrowed Time, chronicles Horwitz's fight against and eventual death from AIDS in 1986. In Horwitz, Monette had met the 'laughing man,' and together they brought it off: 'And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love.' They moved to West Hollywood, a neighbourhood in Los Angeles which has a large population of gay men, in 1978. On September 3, 1974, Monette was introduced to lawyer Roger Horwitz at a party given by Richard Howard in Boston.

Conflicted about his sexual identity, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he taught writing and literature at Milton Academy for a number of years. Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963 and Yale University in 1967. Elisa_rolle Paul Landry Monette (Octo– February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.

Becoming a Man by Paul Monette