Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner remains one of the prime inspirations for me to
write fiction. News of her death today has reached beyond mutual friends
to her many fans. I recall many conversations we had during her visits
to literary conferences, and events in San Francisco. Her writing and advice were a true inspiration in literature and the global LGBT sports community. I still have the worn 1979 (fifth edition) paperback from my first purchase of a gay novel in 1979, which she signed, along with others over the years. If you haven't done so, you owe it to yourself to read more of her work. Farewell, dear woman.