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Chris Fuhrman (1960 - 1991) was an American novelist, author of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

Fuhrman was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1960. He received his Masters from Columbia University.

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, set in Savannah, Georgia in the early 1970s, centers on Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends, altar boys at Blessed Heart and eighth grade classmates at the parish school.

Fuhrman died of cancer in 1991 while working on the final revision of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, his first and only novel.

The University of Georgia Press published the work in September 1991, to very positive reviews, and it was filmed and released in 2002, directed by Peter Care, dedicated to Fuhrman, and starring Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster, and Vincent D'Onofrio.

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