The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City of Night, is a modern classic and his subsequent body...

The warm, hilarious story of the author's outrageously "different" childhood and intense relationship with his colorful, hopelessly narcissistic mother, who realizes he is gay even before he does, in a small town in East Texas. The New York Times -...

Drawn from the secret journals and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century, before Stonewall and gay liberation....