Allen Bratton

Allen Bratton is an American author whose debut novel Henry Henry (2024) won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction in 2025. Henry Henry is a queer literary novel reimagining Shakespeare's Henriad plays in contemporary gay New York, following Hal, a young gay man navigating his relationships with his father, his mentor, and the seductions of urban bohemian life. Henry Henry was published by Unnamed Press and was praised for its formal ambition, its wit, and its tender exploration of intergenerational gay culture and mentorship. The novel drew comparisons to the work of Alan Hollinghurst for its richly evoked literary world and its engagement with gay history. Bratton lives in New York City.