Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

"Fascinating...fun to read and will be the standard text of the defining era of gay literati." - Philadelphia Inquirer

In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays roc…