At the age of 14, the bookishly worldly young Edmund informed his father that he was homosexual ‘so that he would pay for my psychoanalysis’

Edmund White, who cracked open the conversation around gay sex in America, has died at 85.

L’auteur de nombreux romans semi-autobiographiques, qui a fait de l’homosexualité le thème central de son œuvre, est mort dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi à New York, a annoncé…