<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Edmund White </b>was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy <i>A Boy<i>'s</i> Own Story</i>, <i>The Beautiful Room Is Empty</i>, and<b> </b><i>The Farewell Symphony</i>, as well as<i> Caracole</i>, <i>Forgetting Elena</i>, <i> Nocturnes for the King of Naples</i>, and<b> </b><i>Skinned Alive</i>, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America--<i>States of Desire</i>--and <i>Our Paris</i>. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.
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