Edmund White

Earlier this year Mark Doten interviewed Edmund White about his book, My Lives: An Autobiography.Here is Doten's preface and their first exchange:The name Edmund White conjures up a number of images. There’s the Midwestern boy fumbling his way to a gay identity (A Boy’s Own Story); the ultra-libidinous, ultra-liberated gay cruiser (The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Joy of Gay Sex); the erudite