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 in 2020. His output was almost equally ... Image The New York Times called “Forgetting Elena” (1973), about the rituals of gay life on a fictionalized Fire Island, “an astonishi ...

Mr. Hicklin is working on a documentary about Edmund White. Edmund White might have invented the unapologetic queer on the page. At least he did for me. Nothing coded gay, vaguely tragic; nothing ...

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Edmund White ...

Pioneering writer Edmund White has died. He was one of the most important authors of his era, whose work, including A Boy's Own Story in 1982, made an indelible impression on gay culture and how ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and ...

Edmund White, a pioneer of queer literature who broke ground with his semiautobiographical novels chronicling gay life and the gay revolution, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 85.

Edmund White was my college thesis adviser, my role model as a gay writer and my friend. He was the Cole Porter of literature: a genius writer who sang dirty lyrics at parties. Always a twinkle of ...