Soon Russel meets other gay students too.

Then his online gay-chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Robert L. Now a feature film starring Scott Bakula and Nikki Blonsky! The first book in the Russel Middlebrook Series. Geography Club (The Russel Middlebrook Series Book 1) The site was sold to Music Television/Viacom in 2006. Hartinger co-founded the gay entertainment website with Michael Jensen and Sarah Warn. He also once taught creative writing at Tacoma School of the Arts. Hartinger's other books include Project Sweet Life, Grand & Humble, The Last Chance Texaco, and Shadow Walkers.įorthcoming books include two thrillers: Three Truths and a Lie and The Divide (co-written with Michael Jensen). A feature film version of his play The Starfish Scream, which has also received many regional productions (and was twice produced Office-Office Broadway in New York), is in active development. Hartinger is the author of many plays, including a stage adaptation of Geography Club, which has received regional productions in Tacoma, Salt Lake City, Edmonton, and elsewhere. A feature film version of Geography Club, starring Scott Bakula, Nikki Blonski, Ana Gasteyer, Cameron Deane Stewart, and Justin Deeley, was released in 2013. Hartinger subsequently wrote three young adult sequels to Geography Club, which made up The Russel Middlebrook Series.Ī second series of books, Russel Middlebrook: the Futon Years, features Russel Middlebrook in his mid-twenties. lieutenant has been challenged in some American schools, including a school in Hartinger's home town of Tacoma. His first novel was Geography Club, about a gay teenager named Russel Middlebrook.

The geography club book