US EditionHow Groundbreaking Gay Author Edmund White Paved the Way for Other Writers
- Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85.
- Andrew Greer stated that White's writings had a lack of shame unlike many other gay male works of that era, noting it was groundbreaking.
- Michael Jones recalled finding White's book 'A Boy's Own Story' in the 1980s, which helped him understand his own desires as natural.
- Greg Tang mentioned that White was an essential figure in gay literature, asserting, 'There’d be no gay literature in America without Edmund White.
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How groundbreaking gay author Edmund White paved the way for other writers
Andrew Sean Greer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, remembers the first time he read Edmund White. It was the summer of 1989, he was beginning his second year at Brown University and he had just come out.Having learned that White would be teaching at Brown, he found a copy of White's celebrated coming-of-age novel, “A Boy's Own Story.”“I’d never read anything like it — nobody had — and what strikes me looking back is the lack of shame or self-…
How Groundbreaking Gay Author Edmund White Paved the Way for Other Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Sean Greer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, remembers the first time he read Edmund White. It was the summer of 1989, he was beginning his second year at Brown University and he had just come out.
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