Bart Yates

Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes men into his bed with a seductive smile and turns them out just as quickly. No one can resist him--and no one can control him, either. That salient point certainly isn't lost on his brother. Nathan …

Leave Myself Behind is the 2004 debut novel by American writer Bart Yates. The plot centers on a seventeen-year-old gay boy, Noah York, and the process through which he goes as he discovers his sexuality and grows without his father. Critics have compared Leave Myself Behind to J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. The …