Another writer I really like. Haven't read any of the fiction but his biography of Jean Genet, who is one of my favorite writers of fiction, is very very good.
City Boy, his memoir about New York in the 1970s, is very gossipy and fun to read. The same has to be said of his memoir about his time in Paris in the 1980s,
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris. A talented guy, a prolific writer and sex haver. What's not to like.
Edmund White, Pioneer of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 85