THE LETTERMEN
FELICE PICANO, EDMUND WHITE & ANDREW HOLLERAN
The three remaining members of the Violet Quill—an informal group of seven novelists who met in the early ’80s before the advent of AIDS—have continued to grow in stature, so that today they represent three of the most lyrical, experienced, and influential writers of any generation. Now in their mid-to-late ’60s, their writing is deeply informed by their experiences through the post-Stonewall era and the AIDS epidemic. It include such masterpieces as A Boy’s Own Story (White), Dancer From the Dance (Holleran), and Like People in History (Picano), which together represent cornerstones of an American gay canon.
