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

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

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

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

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

The author was widely regarded as a pioneering figure of gay and LGBTQ+ literature Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

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

Friends and proteges remembered the author of 'A Boy's Own Story' as a generous mentor and a gay literary trailblazer.

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