![]() ![]() ![]() “You can have a long career as a screenwriter without ever having anything made.” “I had a modicum of success,” he recalls. the day after the 1994 Northridge earthquake to pursue a career as a screenwriter. Born and raised in Portland, Maine, he attended Boston’s esteemed Emerson College, where he studied film. Rowley’s life has had its own circuitous journey. “The idea of being able to reclaim a role as it might have been intended if society had been more open was irresistible.” “It got me thinking about so many closeted writers who, instead of being able to write authentic queer characters, had to disguise them as bawdy women, which the gay community has come to embrace, but they were stand-ins,” Rowley says. He drew further inspiration from Patrick Dennis’ 1955 classic novel Auntie Mame, which was adapted into the much-loved movie three years later. “Not having kids myself, I’ve always thought of them as little adults, and that’s where a lot of the book’s humor comes from.” “Patrick is a slightly heightened version of me,” he shares. “There’s a bit of kismet that the book accidentally speaks to this past year.”Īlthough Rowley, an uncle to five, hesitates to describe the book as autobiographical, he did glean events from his own life, including the death of his best friend from college. Still, Patrick’s avoidance of unnecessary human contact proved coincidental, as Rowley finished writing the novel as news of COVID-19 became public. ![]()
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