Particular Voices Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers

EB: Mit Pr. Very Good. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1997. Xxxi, 320 pgs. SIgned by 40 contributors on their photo or with laid in signed title pages from books or signed notes with additional promotional photos from 5 contributors laid in. Signed by George Chauncey, Ann Bannon, Quentin Crisp, Paul Monettem Katharine Forrest, Vito Russo, Martin Duberman, Edmund White, Doric Wilson, Doris Grumbach, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Lanford Wilson, Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Joan Larkin, Cheryl Clark, Timothy Liu, Joseph Hansen, James Purdy, Edward Albee, Sarah Schulman, Allan Gurganus, Sapphire, Wayne Kostenbaum, Frank Bidart, Lisa Kron, Eric Bentley, Craig Lucas, Terence McNally, Larry Kramer, Randy Shilts, Jaime Manrique, Christopher Bram, William Meredith, Tim Miller, Tony Kushner, Edward Field, Michael Cunningham, Mark Doty, May Sarton, Laid in Promotional Photos from Robert Girard (signed) , Pomo Afro Homos, Dorothy Allison, Tim Miller, First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Rear hinge repaired. Winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Photography and Visual ArtsIn 1985 photographer Robert Giard set out to create an archive of portraits of gay and lesbian writers from across the United States. The result is the most extensive photographic record of the gay and lesbian literary community ever undertaken. This book contains 182 of the more than 500 portraits Giard has made. The collection underscores the diversity of the gay population and encompasses a broad range of literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, personal narrative, history, criticism, and political/activist statements. Taken as a whole, the portraits and excerpts encompass the many-faceted history of the gay/lesbian experience in the United States over the past seventy-five years. The book also features a foreword by Julia VanHaaften, Curator of Photographs at the New York Public Library; an introduction by Giard, "Self-Portrait of a Gay Reader"; an essay by Christopher Bram on gay writing; and an essay by Joan Nestle on lesbian writing. EB; 9.5 X 1.25 X 10.5 inches; 120 pages .