![]() ![]() There he returned to writing full time.īanis's first published work was a short story, "Broken Record," that appeared in the Swiss gay publication Der Kreis in 1963. In 2004 he retired and took up residence in Martinsburg, West Virginia. ![]() In 1980, he moved to Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains, and then in 1985 to San Francisco, where he worked as a property manager. He championed the early writing of mystery writer Joseph Hansen, among others. Banis served as a tutor for various aspiring writers and acted as their de facto agent. They also published magazines and edited for DSI, a Minneapolis publisher. He rapidly turned out a number of important novels, and he and his partner, Sam Dodson, collaborated on a number of nonfictional gay works as well as a few, generally insignificant novels. ![]() In 1960 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for 20 years and had his first literary success. On his own, he lived for a brief time in Birmingham, Alabama, before moving to Dayton, Ohio, where he worked in sales and floral design. In his memoirs he writes about growing up in severe poverty. While still in grade school, he began writing Nancy Drew-inspired mysteries featuring his classmate Carol Peters, now the writer Carol Cail. As a small child, Banis moved with his family to Eaton, Ohio, where he lived on a farm and finished high school in 1955. Banis was the tenth of eleven children born to William and Anna Banis. ![]() Born in 1937 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Victor J. ![]()
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