DAVID FRANCE is the author of Our Fathers, a
book about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, which Showtime
adapted into a film. He coauthored The Confessionwith former
New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. He is a contributing editor
for New York and has written as well for The New
York Times. His documentary film How to Survive a
Plague was an Oscar finalist, won a Directors Guild Award and
a Peabody Award, and was nominated for two Emmys, among other
accolades. His book of the same title won a Baillie Gifford Prize,
a Green Carnation Prize, the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award, a
Lambda Literary award, the Randy Shilts Award, and a National
Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association award for excellence in
HIV/AIDS coverage. It was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal
for Excellence and the Wellcome Prize in Literature. The author
lives in New York City.
www.davidfrance.com
One of Slate's Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years and one
of LitHub's Best Nonfiction Works of the Decade
“Breathtakingly important. . . . David France managed to
simultaneously break my heart and rekindle my anger.” —Steven
Petrow, The Washington Post
“Inspiring. We owe so much to those brave activists and to Mr.
France for writing this vital book.” —Anderson Cooper, The Wall
Street Journal
“France delivers a monumental punch in the gut; his book is as
moving and involving as a Russian novel. . . . An intimate, searing
memoir and a vivid, detailed history.” —The Washington Post
“A riveting, galvanizing account.” —The New Yorker
“So real to someone who witnessed it that I had to put this volume
down and catch my breath.” —Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times
Book Review
“A remarkably written and highly relevant record of what angry,
invested citizens can come together to achieve, and a moving and
instructive testament to one community’s refusal—in the face of
ignorance, hatred and death—to be silenced or to give up.” —Chicago
Tribune
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