Nicholas Radel, a professor of English at Furman University, has published a new book, Understanding Edmund White. The book is published by the University of South Carolina Press and is part of the Understanding American Literature Series.
Understanding Edmund White is the first book-length critical study of the work of America’s best-known gay novelist. Radel examines White’s writing within the changing social contexts of the past half-century, when gay and lesbian people moved from being seen as psychologically deviant to being increasingly accepted as productive members of society.