This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. It includes fascinating entries on authors from W.H. Auden to Alice Walker, James Baldwin to Virginia Wolff, and also includes works of those who have theorized lesbian and gay culture and writing. Featuring authors of works with lesbian or gay content, as well as known lesbian and gay writers of popular cultural fiction, it opens the boundaries of this field by placing these authors alongside the canon of poets, dramatists and novelists, acknowledging the importance of pop culture to gay and lesbian communities. It offers an invaluable guide to a rich and varied culture and is indispensable for anyone with an interest in lesbian and gay writing.