Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. He taught at Yale and Columbia Universities, and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He was a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Vogue and Vanity Fair. In 1983 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The novel “The Story of a Boy” is one of the writer’s most famous works. This is a frank text that reveals the psychology of a modern American teenager. Published in Russian for the first time.