In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Incestuous feelings existed in White's family; his mother was attracted to him. The novel The Married Man (2000) is gay-themed and draws on White's life. When I was 15 years old I wrote my first (unpubliEdmund Whited) novel about being gay at a time when there were no other gay novels.

Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13 1940) is an American novelist as well as a writer of memoirs and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love.