Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85. He left behind such widely read works as “A ...

While Edmund White, America’s greatest gay writer, wasn’t the founder of contemporary gay literature, he both popularized and ...

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.

Many of White's books chronicled his own experiences as a gay man, making an indelible impression on gay culture and how ...

When I was 19 years old, I visited New York for ten days on the way to London. I was flying from New Zealand, that small ...

Edmund White might have invented the unapologetic queer on the page. At least he did for me. Nothing coded gay, vaguely ...

Edmund White, a pioneer of queer literature who broke ground with his semiautobiographical novels chronicling gay life and ...

He was among a generation of gay writers who in the 1970s became bards for a community no longer afraid to declare its ...

The author was widely regarded as a pioneering figure of gay and LGBTQ+ literature Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, ...

Edmund White, who cracked open the conversation around gay sex in America, has died. He is survived by husband and fellow ...

Edmund White, a trailblazing writer often hailed as the “father of modern queer literature,” died on June 3 at his Manhattan ...