Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Steve Abbott James Baldwin Bruce Boone Christopher Bram William S(eward) Burroughs II Truman Capote Marsh Cassady John Champagne Christopher Coe Dennis Cooper Michael Cunningham Daniel Curzon Christopher Davis Samuel Delany Larry Duplechan Melvin Dixon David Feinberg Robert Ferro John Fox Sanford Friedman John Gilgun Gary Glickman Robert Gluck Clayton R. Graham (Larry Paul Ebmeier) Harlan Greene Allan Gurganus Richard Hall Joseph Hansen Andrew Holleran Bo Huston Christopher Isherwood Arturo Islas Joe Keenan Randall Kenan Kevin Killian Larry Kramer David Leavitt Armistead Maupin James Merrill Larry Mitchell Paul Monette Ethan Mordden Michael Nava Felice Picano David Plante Joseph Ashby Porter John Preston James Purdy John Rechy Paul Reed Paul Russell Jonathan Strong Gore Vidal Peter Weltner Edmund White George Whitmore Donald Windham Appendix Index

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Bio-bibliographical and critical studies of fifty-seven important gay American fiction writers.

About the Author

EMMANUEL S. NELSON is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Cortland. His special interests in gay literature, post colonial literature, and ethnic American literature are reflected in his publications, including Connections: Essays on Black Literatures, AIDS: The Literary Response, and Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Greenwood Press, 1992).

Reviews

?Hardbound and made to last a century or so, the book covers fifty-seven modern gay novelists, giving you run-downs on each writer's biography, books and reputation. There are big names and small, some dubious, and some missing, but the volume is definitely historic.?-Mandate

?Nelson has done an excellent job in editing this book about gay novelists, which should be a welcome addition in all research libraries as well as other libraries where there is an interest in gay and lesbian culture. It fills a need in the area of gay and lesbian studies and is recommended for academic and large public libraries.?-Reference Books Bulletin

?The material provided is excellent, and the sections on critical reception, which often delineate how homophobia has informed critical opinion, are invaluable and unprecedented. A fine essay by Gregory Bredbeck helps define the idea of 'gay literature.' Gay/lesbian studies are blossoming, and this volume will begin to fill the enormous gap in our reference collections on the subject; nothing like it is currently available.?-Library Journal

?This book would be strongly recommended if for no other reason than that so little has been published about most of the novelists. It is important for providing analysis unavailable elsewhere.?-Choice

"Hardbound and made to last a century or so, the book covers fifty-seven modern gay novelists, giving you run-downs on each writer's biography, books and reputation. There are big names and small, some dubious, and some missing, but the volume is definitely historic."-Mandate

"Nelson has done an excellent job in editing this book about gay novelists, which should be a welcome addition in all research libraries as well as other libraries where there is an interest in gay and lesbian culture. It fills a need in the area of gay and lesbian studies and is recommended for academic and large public libraries."-Reference Books Bulletin

"This book would be strongly recommended if for no other reason than that so little has been published about most of the novelists. It is important for providing analysis unavailable elsewhere."-Choice

"The material provided is excellent, and the sections on critical reception, which often delineate how homophobia has informed critical opinion, are invaluable and unprecedented. A fine essay by Gregory Bredbeck helps define the idea of 'gay literature.' Gay/lesbian studies are blossoming, and this volume will begin to fill the enormous gap in our reference collections on the subject; nothing like it is currently available."-Library Journal