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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.
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Edmund Valentine White III is a patriarch of modern gay American literature, having contributed novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays, non-fiction as well as fiction, dealing with a range of social topics, frequently involving same-sex love. His best-known works include *The Joy of Gay Sex* (with Charles Silverstein) and his autobiographic-fiction trilogy *A Boy's Own Story*, *The Beautiful Room Is Empty*, and *The Farewell Symphony*.
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