Eminent outlaws

the gay writers who changed America

Hardcover, 372 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2012 by Twelve.

ISBN:
978-0-446-56313-0
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OCLC Number:
707964978

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4 stars (1 review)

Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.

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4 stars

Fascinating tour through the lives and works of famous, mostly American, gay (male) authors, playwrights and poets. The last few chapters seemed a bit hurried (and possibly too contemporary), and the rest of the gay literary world outside North America is mostly ignored, except as props. But well worth the read.

Subjects

  • History and criticism
  • Gays' writings, American
  • American Authors
  • Gay authors

Places

  • United States