“Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.” MenSelfHateGayForgottenBrilliantNovelistsBiographiesRivalsDrankGorePoignant Author:Edmund White
“Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.” PeopleLittlesFormClassMiddleJudgmentMiddle ClassBiographiesAvenging Author:Edmund White
“I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be” WantWritingMightGamesChallengesNovelBiographiesArbitrary Author:Edmund White
