Edmund White Discusses his Biography of Genet.
Writer Edmund White. He has been called "unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist." White's novels draw significantly from his own experiences in a style he calls "auto-fiction." In his newest book, "Genet: A Biography" (Knopf), White documents the life of controversial French writer, Jean Genet. (The book just won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for biography). Genet had a reputation as a dandy, a thief, a vagabond --- a "thug of genius." White calls him "one of France's most original and forceful novelists of the twentieth century." White has also written "Forgetting Elena," "A Boy's Own Story," and six other books of fiction and non-fiction. (REBROADCAST from 11/8/93).
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