Edmund White's 'Lives'

Fresh Air

Published July 11, 2006 at 11:00 AM EDT

Edmund White has been writing about gay culture in fiction and nonfiction since the 1970s. He has a new autobiography, My Lives. White is director of the creative writing program at Princeton University.

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