num_pages: 608
description: One of America's most brilliant composers and diarists recreates the vibrancy, intrigues, and extraordinary accomplishments of the art world, the gay world, and the music world in New York and Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, offering vivid portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, and other leading figures of his generation. Photos.
language: English
title: KNOWING WHEN TO STOP: A Memoir
titlecomplete: KNOWING WHEN TO STOP: A Memoir
genres: Nonfiction, LGBT, Memoir, Music
ratings_count: 43
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Touchstone