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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The literary world mourns the loss of Edmund White, a prolific and courageous writer whose groundbreaking work profoundly ...

He was 85.The writer’s death on June 3 was confirmed by his husband, Michael Carroll, and agent Bill Clegg, The New York ...