Edmund White (born 1940-01-13 ) is an American writer. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980) 1.2 A Boy's Own Story (1982) 1.3 Articles and Interviews 2 External Links // Sourced States of Desire: Travels in Gay America...
Edmund White is unarguably the preeminent author of the white gay male subculture. His career coincides almost exactly with the rise of the modern gay movement in the 1960s, and his work documents articulately and vividly the transition from a time...
Edmund White is a master stylist who has produced acclaimed novels, intrepid and insightful nonfiction on gay society, and semi- autobiographical novels that combine the best features of fiction and nonfiction. Known as a "gay writer," White also...
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he largely grew up in Chicago. White attended the prestigious Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan as a boy, then studied Chinese at the University of Michigan. He later worked in New York as a journalist. From 1983...
The Violet Quill Club was formed by seven Manhattan writers, Edmund White among them, as a place to incubate and share gay writing. The growing audience for gay writing and the members' fame imposed physical limitations and emotional strains on the club, and after...
Author Edmund White feels much of his fiction draws on diverse influences while remaining based in his life. White began writing at fifteen, though his first novel was not published until more than twenty years later. His experiments with incorporating altered events from his...
For several days now, a conspicuous “For Rent” sign has hung over the door of a gay bar on Christopher Street. It would hardly be news: Bars open and close every day—and this one isn’t even the oldest one on the block. But because of...
For several days now, a conspicuous “For Rent” sign has hung over the door of a gay bar on Christopher Street. It would hardly be news: Bars open and close every day—and this one isn’t even the oldest one on the block. But because...
