The Mapplethorpe Generation

by Edmund White

An exclusive essay written for the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition held at the Grand Palais from 26th march 2014 to 13th july 2014.

Genres: Art

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2014

About the author

Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer, and essayist. He was the recipient of Lambda Literary's Visionary Award, the National Book Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. France made him Chevalier (and later Officier) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993.
White was known as a groundbreaking writer of gay literature and a major influence on gay American literature and has been called "the first major queer novelist to champion a new generation of writers."