EMMANUEL S. NELSON is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Cortland. His special interests in gay literature, post colonial literature, and ethnic American literature are reflected in his publications, including Connections: Essays on Black Literatures, AIDS: The Literary Response, and Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Greenwood Press, 1992).

• Preface Introduction Steve Abbott James Baldwin Bruce Boone Christopher Bram William S(eward) Burroughs II Truman Capote Marsh Cassady John Champagne Christopher Coe Dennis Cooper Michael Cunningham Daniel Curzon Christopher Davis Samuel Delany Larry Duplechan Melvin Dixon David Feinberg Robert Ferro John Fox Sanford Friedman John Gilgun Gary Glickman Robert Gluck Clayton R. Graham (Larry Paul Ebmeier) Harlan Greene Allan Gurganus Richard Hall Joseph Hansen Andrew Holleran Bo Huston Christopher Isherwood Arturo Islas Joe Keenan Randall Kenan Kevin Killian Larry Kramer David Leavitt Armistead Maupin James Merrill Larry Mitchell Paul Monette Ethan Mordden Michael Nava Felice Picano David Plante Joseph Ashby Porter John Preston James Purdy John Rechy Paul Reed Paul Russell Jonathan Strong Gore Vidal Peter Weltner Edmund White George Whitmore Donald Windham Appendix Index

EMMANUEL S. NELSON is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Cortland. His special interests in gay literature, post colonial literature, and ethnic American literature are reflected in his publications, including Connections: Essays on Black Literatures, AIDS: The Literary Response, and Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Greenwood Press, 1992).

• Preface Introduction Steve Abbott James Baldwin Bruce Boone Christopher Bram William S(eward) Burroughs II Truman Capote Marsh Cassady John Champagne Christopher Coe Dennis Cooper Michael Cunningham Daniel Curzon Christopher Davis Samuel Delany Larry Duplechan Melvin Dixon David Feinberg Robert Ferro John Fox Sanford Friedman John Gilgun Gary Glickman Robert Gluck Clayton R. Graham (Larry Paul Ebmeier) Harlan Greene Allan Gurganus Richard Hall Joseph Hansen Andrew Holleran Bo Huston Christopher Isherwood Arturo Islas Joe Keenan Randall Kenan Kevin Killian Larry Kramer David Leavitt Armistead Maupin James Merrill Larry Mitchell Paul Monette Ethan Mordden Michael Nava Felice Picano David Plante Joseph Ashby Porter John Preston James Purdy John Rechy Paul Reed Paul Russell Jonathan Strong Gore Vidal Peter Weltner Edmund White George Whitmore Donald Windham Appendix Index