With the publication of his first collection of short stories, Family Dancing, in 1984, David Leavitt became not only one of the chief proponents of the expanding field of gay fiction but was -- perhaps to his own surprise -- called on to be the...

The expatriate writer takes five questions about Florida, Tuscany, dirty hotels, and his dishy new book David Leavitt may be the only American writer who can say things like "I've never had a real job before, unless you count the semester I...

'I always wanted to be a writer," says David Leavitt, "there was never any question about that. But at first I wanted to be a songwriter -- my fantasy was to be Joni Mitchell." It didn't work out that way, but Leavitt has...