Edmund White, novelist & chronicler of gay life, dies at 85

[tm_nyc]

A major force in gay literature for the last 50-odd years:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/04/edmund-white-novelist-dies

[Mavica]

R.I.P., Mr. White.

[PeterRS]

8 hours ago, tm_nyc said:

A major force in gay literature for the last 50-odd years:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/04/edmund-white-novelist-dies

A sad day. He achieved so much for the gay community. I love his quote mentioned in The Guardian obituary that @tm_nyc posted -

Having come up in the late 1970s, he once said of his generation: "Gay fiction before that, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote, was written for straight readers. We had a gay readership in mind, and that made all the difference. We didn’t have to spell out what Fire Island was.”