States of Desire: Travels in Gay America

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Plume, 1991 - Fiction - 344 pages

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San Francisco
30
Portland and Seattle
70
Santa Fe Salt Lake City and Denver
93
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About the author (1991)

Author Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 13, 1940. He majored in Chinese at the University of Michigan. Before spending a year in Rome, he worked for Time-Life Books from 1962 until 1970. Upon his return, he became an editor for The Saturday Review and Horizon. He lived in France from 1983 until 1990. His works have chronicled gay life with such books as A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.

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