novel The Night of the Moonbow (1989) tells the story of a boy driven to violent means by the constant harassment he receives at a boys summer camp. Night Magic, written in 1991, was posthumously published in 1995. Personal life In 1955, Tryon married Ann L. Noyes, the daughter of stockbroker Joseph Leo Lilienthal and his wife, the former Edna Arnstein. She was the former wife of Thomas Ewing Noyes, with whom she had been a theatrical producer. The Tryons divorced in 1958, and Ann Tryon resumed her previous married name. She died in 1966. Tryon said that she committed suicide and that he kept a photograph of her in his apartment. During the 1970s, he was in a romantic relationship with Clive Clerk, one of the original cast members of A Chorus Line and an interior designer who decorated Tryon's apartment on Central Park West in New York City, which was featured in Architectural Digest. From 1973 to 1977, Tryon was in a relationship with porn actor Casey Donovan. Death Tryon died on September 4, 1991, at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California. The announced cause of death was "stomach cancer". Tryon's literary executor, C. Thomas Holloway, later stated Tryon's stomach cancer was related to his HIV-positive status. Tryon asked to keep this information private. When Tryon's lover Clive Clerk explained, "Tom didn't want his readers or his relatives to know," Holloway disapproved, writing, "I see it as Tom's selfish silence helped the Dark Ages [of public acceptance of HIV/AIDS] continue into the millennium." Filmography Film Television Bibliography Novels The Other (Knopf, 1971) Harvest Home (Knopf, 1973) Lady (Knopf, 1974) The Night of the Moonbow (Knopf, 1989) The Wings of the Morning (Knopf, 1990) In the Fire of Spring (Knopf, 1992) The Adventures of Opal and Cupid (Viking Press, 1992) Night Magic (Simon & Schuster, 1995) Collections Crowned Heads (Knopf, 1976) All That Glitters (Knopf, 1986) Short stories and novellas Bobbitt (1976) Fedora (1976) Lorna (1976) Willie (1976) References External links https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8460/tom-tryon 1926 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American novelists Male actors from New York (state) American male film actors American horror writers American male novelists United States Navy personnel of World War II American LGBT military personnel American mystery writers American science fiction writers American male screenwriters American male stage actors American male television actors Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from stomach