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Bill Konigsberg

Bill Konigsberg is an American author recognized for his works including Honestly Ben, Openly Straight, and The Music of What Happens. In addition to being an author, he is a sports writer who received a GLAAD Media Award in 2002 for his ESPN column “Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays.” Konigsberg later served as a sports writer and editor at the Associated Press in New York but grew bored and chose to write the novel Audible, which was retitled Out of the Pocket and earned him a Lambda Literary Award in 2009. He subsequently published Openly Straight, which received the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor. His third novel, The Porcupine of Truth, won both the Stonewall Book Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award.

Bill Konigsberg became a published novelist in 2008 with the novel Out of the Pocket. Below is a list of Bill Konigsberg's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Openly Straight Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Openly Straight (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Honestly Ben (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Openly, Honestly (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Out of the Pocket (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Porcupine of Truth (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Music of What Happens (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Bridge (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Destination Unknown (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Banned Together (2025) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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