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Paul Monette's ''Becoming a Man; Half a Life Story won the National Book Award'' for biography.  This Phillips Academy graduate lived in Andover, Lawrence, and California.  
*Boys Like Girls, a pop/rock group, was founded in 2005.  


Monette's poetry, fiction and autobiographic works tell his struggle for identity as a gay man in the 1950's and 1960's.
*Martin Johnson, lead singer for the group, graduated from Andover High School in 2004.


'''Poetry'''
*Other members of the group are Paul DiGiovanni and John Keefe, as well as Bryan Donohue who left the band.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=422901&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Carpenter and the Asylum Poems''] (1975)
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=422901&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog''] (1988)
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=424128&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New Selected Poems, 1973 - 1993''] (1994)


'''Autobiographies'''
*Their first album was ''Boys Like Girls'' released in 2006.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=422889&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir''] (1988)
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=422818&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story''](1992)


'''Novels'''
*Their second album ''Love Drunk'' was released in 2009.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=422679&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Afterlife''] (1990)
 
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=423232&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Halfway Home''] (1991)
*In 2009 Martin Johnson sang the national anthem for a Patriot's game.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=423818&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&o=10&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc ''Sanctuary: A Tale of Life in the Woods''] (1997)




See
See
*"Paul Monette: Writer on Gay Issues" Andover Townsman, February 16, 1995.
 
'''Essays'''
*[http://www.boyslikegirls.com/us/home Boys Like Girls]
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=423412&t=Monette%2C%20Paul&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=12&rt=author&s=pubdate&sd=asc L''ast Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise''] (1994)
 
 
*[http://www.boyslikegirls.com/us/home Boys Like Girls] wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc. 1 May 2012
 
 
 
 
 
*Andover's Johnson to Ring in Pats Home Opener. (photo of group-all four) ''Andover Townsman'' 9/10/2009, p.15.
 
 
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  • Boys Like Girls, a pop/rock group, was founded in 2005.
  • Martin Johnson, lead singer for the group, graduated from Andover High School in 2004.
  • Other members of the group are Paul DiGiovanni and John Keefe, as well as Bryan Donohue who left the band.
  • Their first album was Boys Like Girls released in 2006.
  • Their second album Love Drunk was released in 2009.
  • In 2009 Martin Johnson sang the national anthem for a Patriot's game.


See


  • Boys Like Girls wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc. 1 May 2012



  • Andover's Johnson to Ring in Pats Home Opener. (photo of group-all four) Andover Townsman 9/10/2009, p.15.




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