Writer EDMUND WHITE. He's the author of seven books, including "Forgetting Elena," "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America," and "Genet: A Biography," for which he was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lamda Literary Award. He has a new collection of essays from the past 25 years, "The Burning Library" (Alfred P. Knopf). Many of his essays focus on gay life in America.
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