John-Manuel Andriote (born 1958) is an American journalist and author. He has written about health, medicine, politics and culture for The Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines. He began reporting on HIV and AIDS in 1986. Early life and education John-Manuel Andriote was born in New London, Connecticut, on October 6, 1958. He graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1976. He earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Gordon College in 1980. In 1986 he earned a Master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Career Focus on HIV/AIDS Andriote began to focus on HIV/AIDS in 1986. His first article on the subject was titled "Coping with Grief in the Time of AIDS," published in Chicago's Windy City Times. Andriote's history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1999. The book won the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards "Editors' Choice" award, was an American Library Association Stonewall Nonfiction Awards finalist, and was a finalist for the 2000 Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. In 2008, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History Archive Center created "The John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection" of his research materials, correspondence and recorded interviews used to develop the book. In 2011, Andriote independently published an updated and expanded second edition of Victory Deferred to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases. Disco and dance music In 2001, HarperEntertainment published Andriote's book Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco. Andriote discussed the book on NPR's Kojo Nnamdi Show and in a two-part series on the disco era produced by David Swatling for Radio Netherlands. Andriote has been featured in two BBC television documentaries on the disco era, "When Disco Ruled the World" and a biopic of Chic founder and music producer Nile Rogers called "The Hitmaker." In 2009 the Smithsonian Institution's's National Museum of American History Archive Center created "The John-Manuel Andriote Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco Collection" of the interviews and other research materials used to develop the book. In 2012, Andriote updated, retitled, and independently released an e-book edition of the book, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco/Dance Music. Living with HIV Andriote "came out" in 2006 about his October 27, 2005 HIV diagnosis in a firsthand Washington Post story and NPR interview. He has