Eminent outlaws
Subtitle: the gay writers who changed America
By: Christopher Bram
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780446563130
Subjects: History and criticism; Gays' writings, American; American Authors; Gay authors
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Into the fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood; title: pt. 2. The sixties. The great homosexual theater scare ; The medium is the messsage ; Love and sex and A single man ; The whole world is watching ; Riots; title: pt. 3. The seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise; title: pt. 4. The eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark; title: pt. 5. The nineties and after. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide; title: Rewriting America.