Mr. White is a contemporary of mine who was on the scene, and reporting about it, before it was fashionable and/or safe--he is a part of our gay history and his books should be read by all gay, and nongay, people, young and old--by the way did I mention he is an excellent writer?!?!?
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Stonewall Hosts Talk
by Literary Icon
Edmund
White
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On Saturday,
January 17, 2008, at 2:00 pm, at the ArtServe auditorium, 1350 East Sunrise
Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Stonewall will host a lecture by literary icon
Edmund White.
Novelist,
playwright, courageous memoirist, short story writer and definitive biographer
of writers Rimbaud, Genet and Proust, White is one of the preeminent writers of
post-Stonewall gay literature.
White's
best-known work is A Boy's Own
Story, the first volume of an autobiographical-fiction series
that continued with The Beautiful Room Is
Empty and The Farewell
Symphony, describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood
to middle age. Several characters in these latter two novels are recognizably
based on well-known individuals from White's New York-centered literary and
artistic milieu, many of whom were fellow members of the VioletQuill, a gay
writer's group that met briefly from 1980-1981 and included, among others,
Andrew Holleran, Felice
Picano, and Robert Ferro.
Complex and
immensely literate, White has also been influential as a literary and cultural
critic, particularly on gay issues. He has received many awards and
distinctions; among these, he is a Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Please join us on
Saturday, January 17 at 2:00 PM for this rare chance to meet Mr. White. The
author will be available after the presentation for book signing. The event will
include light refreshments and is free and open to the public.
Where &
When
ArtServe Auditorium
1350 East Sunrise Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL
33304
2:00 pm
Free and open to the
public
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Stonewall is located at 1300 East
Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Our mission is to collect, preserve,
organize for use and display materials related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender culture and history; support related research and sponsor cultural
and educational programs.
Funding for this organization is
provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as
recommended by the Broward Cultural Council.
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