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This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. and Cooley.

Edmund White, one of the most eloquent and perceptive chroniclers of gay life and culture,

died earlier this month on June 3rd. He was 85.

As a boy in the 1950s in the Midwest, he tried to cure his

homosexuality. He drew upon that time of life for his 1982 book, A Boy's Own Story. It became an

international bestseller and the first of a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels.

When the book was republished nine years ago, Alan Hollinghurst in The Guardian, described the book as,

quote, both a masterpiece in the literature of adolescence and a pivotal book in the history

of gay writing, opening up the landscape of teenage homosexuality with revelatory frankness,

unquote.

White wrote more than 30 books, including nonfiction, collections of essays, a national book award-winning biography of French author John Jeannet, and the guide, The Joy of Gay Sex,

which he co-authored. We're going to listen back to portions of four of his interviews.

Please be advised, there is some talk of sex, but nothing explicit. We'll begin with Terry's

1985 interview with Edmund White. When you were first starting to write and first trying to

get published, do you think that being gay was an obstacle at all?

Oh, very much so.

I have always written about gay themes from the time I wrote my first novel when I was 14 years old.

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