David Leavitt

…novelists, including Edmund White and David Leavitt, who have made art out of previously repressed and unnarrated areas of homoerotic experience. Literature is above all the narrative medium of the arts, the one that still best relates What Happened to Me, and American literature, at least, has only been enriched…

David Leavitt introduced homosexual themes into his portrayal of middle-class life in Family Dancing (1984). At the turn of the 21st century, younger Jewish writers from the former Soviet Union such as Gary Shteyngart and Lara Vapnyar dealt impressively with the experience of immigrants in…

…publicized plagiarism suit against novelist David Leavitt; the latter was accused of having borrowed material from Spender’s autobiography for his novel While England Sleeps. Leavitt ultimately revised his work, but not before a vitriolic airing of the controversy in the pages of the leading journals in London and New York.