The Loves of My Life : A Sex Memoir - A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ ( New York Times ) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex.

Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950’s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970’s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen – and experienced – it all.

Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement White’s unquestionable role at the apex of the gay canon.

Author: Edmund White

Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Memoirs

Published on 29 Jan 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.