Title: A boy's own story
First published: 1983
Description: Edmund White is a patriarch of gay American literature. *A Boy's Own Story* is the first of his trio of autobiographical novels (followed by *The Beautiful Room Is Empty* and *The Farewell Symphony*).
It begins with experiments and realizations of adolescence and proceeds through his firsthand account of the Stonewall uprising.
Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Fiction, Gay youth, Teenage boys, Gay men, Gay biography, Literature of special Gay interest, Modern fiction, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, gay, Jeunes homosexuels, Romans, nouvelles, Garçons adolescents
Places: New York, Christopher Street, Stonewall Inn
Time periods: 1954-1969