Paul Richard "Bo" Huston[1] (June 10, 1959 – May 24, 1993)[2] was an American writer.
[3] Born Paul Richard Huston, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, he attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and spent the best part of the 1980s exploring the New York scene.
He was briefly a film student at New York University in the early 1980s, but withdrew from the program and worked in typesetting.
[3] Moving to San Francisco in 1987, he took a typesetting job with an advertising agency and met his longterm partner Dan Carmell,[3] but left the advertising job in 1988 after being diagnosed HIV-positive and devoted the remainder of his life to writing.
[10] After Huston's death, Carmell and lesbian writer Dorothy Allison coparented a child together.