A History of American Gay Autobiography

About the Author

David Bergman is the author or editor of at least twenty books. His Gaiety Transfigured (1993) was a selected book of the year by CHOICE and the Gustavis Myers Center for Human Rights. He also has published The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (2004) and The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Post-War American Poetry (2015). He edited Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris (2009) and, for twenty years with Joan Larkin, the book series Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiography. In addition, he has published three full-length volumes of poetry. The most recent is Fortunate Light (2023). Among his recent honors are Passager Poet of the Year (2023), and inclusion in the Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame (2024). Guy Davidson is Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on the interconnections between literary form, queer sexuality, and consumer capitalism. His most recent book, Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America (Stanford University Press, 2019), won the Australian Universities Heads of English Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2019.